The Occasional Pamphlet

.@grimmelm is right: “AI is Zuckerberg's MacGuffin. It won't solve Facebook's problems, but it will solve Zuckerberg's: getting someone else to take responsibility.” washingtonpost.com/news/the-s…

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“All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.” – @StevenWright

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“[A]ssaults by Trump and his base on the rule of law…were they to be normalized, would pose existential, not incidental, threats to American democracy” say @jon_rauch & @benjaminwittes in @TheAtlantic. #mustread theatlantic.com/magazine/arch…

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Dystopia ➞ utopia? thenib.com/it-doesn-t-hav…

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Four things that I’ve learned in some three decades as a student and professor at Harvard University bit.ly/2mgGNew

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“Indeed, the challenges A.I. poses aren’t entirely new. We’ve already successfully regulated it in the past — we just didn’t call it ‘artificial intelligence.’” Indeed. nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opi…

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Neal Lane, former director of the White House OSTP and Science Advisor to President @BillClinton, ought to know: “Since WW II, no American president has shown greater disdain for science—or more lack of awareness of its likely costs” than @realDonaldTrump. nytimes.com/2018/01/04/opi…

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Thanks, @SenMarkey, for fighting the good fight for #NetNeutrality. twitter.com/senmarkey/stat…

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