Henry Farrell
http://www.henryfarrell.net Now out with Abe Newman, Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). publishersweekly.com/9781250840554
- I can't recommend @dsquareddigest.bsky.social The Unaccountability Machine strongly enough as an explanation of how systems work and when they don't - now available in the US - press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... - (and I believe blurbed by Brian Eno for the UK paperback which I haven't seen).
- Reposted by Henry FarrellJust getting around to this. I would read Cosma on the phone book. On LLMs…well, read it yourself.
- Cosma Shalizi on LLMs as libraries of 'intellect' (original version - bactra.org/weblog/feral... and also republished in my newsletter www.programmablemutter.com/p/on-feral-l... )
- This is a good summarization of the summarization
- A really fascinating piece by @himself.bsky.social: Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy. My summary would be: democratic organization should be more like jazz than classical music, a dynamic process that adapts to change but is able to maintain an identity. www.programmablemutter.com/p/brian-enos...
- Reposted by Henry Farrell@himself.bsky.social and Marion Fourcade talk about this as 'prayer wheels for organizational ritual' www.programmablemutter.com/p/a-new-piec...
- Reposted by Henry FarrellBeen looking for an analysis like this from @hannahritchie.bsky.social. Doing a few LLM queries doesn’t use up much energy. Massive computations by companies might be a different matter, but typical individual impacts are small.
