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Henry Farrell

What Henry Farrell thinks about Silicon Valley

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Professor of international affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS and co-author, with Abraham Newman, of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy.

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  1. Our readingIdeas forming the 'ideology of technological salvation' helped inspire the development of so-called frontier AI models.

    Their wordsThis heady concoction of ideas helped inspire the development of the so-called frontier models that have reshaped thinking about AI over the past four years.

    ↗What AI debates have to do with alchemyprogrammablemutter.com

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  3. Our readingSilicon Valley's actual trajectory increasingly resembles Philip K. Dick's paranoid, hallucinatory fiction rather than the optimistic space-age visions of Asimov and Clarke.

    optimismconsciousness

    Their wordsIncreasingly, it is looking much more like the one anticipated by the drugged-up 1960s oeuvre of Philip K Dick, filled with deranged billionaires, machines that claim consciousness, hallucinated worlds and political breakdown.

    ↗We're stuck in Philip K. Dick's imagined universeprogrammablemutter.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  5. Our readingThe grand visions promoted by today's tech titans conceal realities that are messier, more sordid, and more contingent than claimed.

    Their wordsAll of these grand visions hide truths that are messier, more sordid and more contingent.

    ↗We're stuck in Philip K. Dick's imagined universeprogrammablemutter.com 3rd of 3 in this piece