Post AauX7vFS91w6hlYCeW by srslypascal@chaos.social
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 (DIR) Post #AauMNgZ3PKicIk25r6 by tante@tldr.nettime.org
       2023-10-18T22:12:52Z
       
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       I think a lot of "tech regulation" (like the EU "AI act") are a bit of a replacement activity: Since governments and similar institutions can't directly "innovate" in technology, they try to be the first with some regulation. "We regulated AI first because we know that it's super dooper important and life changing" is the equivalent of beim the next "AI startup".That's why we get these pushes for tech-specific regulation and bills instead of organizing tech within our existing values and laws.
       
 (DIR) Post #AauOBXJEBziO1uxsVU by jplebreton@mastodon.social
       2023-10-18T22:33:04Z
       
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       @tante so long as capital gets to operate the steering wheel and regulators get to work the (barely functioning) brakes we're gonna keep speeding towards a cliff (but not the made up cliff that tech people are talking about to sell Car Wings that will never work, ok i think i've stretched this analogy enough haha)
       
 (DIR) Post #AauX7vFS91w6hlYCeW by srslypascal@chaos.social
       2023-10-19T00:13:17Z
       
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       @tante That's what you get (along with a bunch of other undesirable effects like corruption, party politics, lacking representation of lower income classes, etc) when you have a system where political representatives get elected (which incurs a huge incentive to be "present in the media" at *all* costs) instead of simply using a random sample of the population.