Alistair Croll
Entrepreneur and writer; co-author of Lean Analytics, founder of the FWD50 digital-government conference, and chair of O'Reilly's Strata conference.
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Their wordsIn an era of slop (both AI and human) the only true currency is legitimacy. When we don’t know what’s real; when we’re flooded with too much information to process—that’s we rely on source we trust, someone who’s done the research and hasn’t let us down before.
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Their wordsLike many of the companies Cory Doctorow indicts for Enshittification, platforms often reduce churn by holding customers hostage rather than making them happy.
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Citizens are going to deploy AI to navigate government, whether government likes it or not.
Their wordsIf you’re too busy talking about how government will deploy AI to serve citizens, you might have overlooked the reverse: citizens are going to deploy AI to navigate government—whether government likes it or not.
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Their wordsThe history of computing is a history of the advancement of the language and the interface.
- 14 months earlier
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Their wordsLatinate is the language of expertise. One might even say the language of the elite. You speak English, and yet you’ve probably never noticed that it’s actually two distinct languages. It’s hard to see a system when you’re in it. Yet recognizing the system is the first step in subverting it.
- 15 months earlier
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Crypto is, at its core, about making impermanent digital things behave like permanent physical ones.
Their wordsSo we have to add something to the content to mark it somehow, creating a sort of uniqueness or permanence. At its core, that’s what crypto is about: Making impermanent digital things behave like permanent physical things.
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Their wordsWe could just trust everyone to tell the truth, and mark their AI-generated content as coming from a machine. I’m only mentioning this to point out how ridiculous the notion is; clearly, people would forget to do so, and bad actors would lie. Some platforms are trying to mark bot accounts as different from human ones, but this isn’t going to solve our problem.
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