Mead was not exceptional in her views. Most interwar leftists (and even fascists) were techno-optimists gushing over giant soviet factories and dams. They became skeptical of progress only when the soviets started to mobilize their western sympathizers against America's nuclear arsenal build up.
Technocracy was just a 1920's take on 19th century socialism which proposed running society like a factory. To this day communist regimes like PRC claim that they run society according to the scientific theory of marxism.
David Price declassified Greg Bateson OSS paper and Birth of the CIA article shows Bateson wanted to keep India in colonial position. His Biography by Chaney Runaway says he warned of Runaway GHG warming feedback. His Circuit Earth MOVIE on first Earth Day warned of anthropogenic ice age from aerosols. 1961 Will Kellog and Sagan who was Mead fan wrote Runaway GHG paper. Atmosphere Endangered Endangering NIH USAID and NSSM 200. MediaLogging.com Bateson Huxley And many others Gordon MacDonald, Reichelderfer, 4 gens of Berjerknes, Wallenbergs, This is a huge story. The Quest 1981 DOD film and Unchained Goddess Bell/Galton Malthusian Verhulst Vietnam Jian Song China George Bush NWO.
Very much like the idea of the social history of AI. It feels like the first drafts of that history--even the best of it like the Atlantic essay and the posts in the Money Stuff newsletter by Matt Levine and in Stratechery by Ben Thompson--are very much focused on the boardroom. I hope someone is writing about the experiences of rank and file OpenAI workers, not as followers of the great leader, but as agents in their own right.
I've always been interested in the resonances of 1930s politics and ideas with the present...this piece has me more jazzed to get my hands on the book.
Mead was not exceptional in her views. Most interwar leftists (and even fascists) were techno-optimists gushing over giant soviet factories and dams. They became skeptical of progress only when the soviets started to mobilize their western sympathizers against America's nuclear arsenal build up.
Technocracy was just a 1920's take on 19th century socialism which proposed running society like a factory. To this day communist regimes like PRC claim that they run society according to the scientific theory of marxism.
David Price declassified Greg Bateson OSS paper and Birth of the CIA article shows Bateson wanted to keep India in colonial position. His Biography by Chaney Runaway says he warned of Runaway GHG warming feedback. His Circuit Earth MOVIE on first Earth Day warned of anthropogenic ice age from aerosols. 1961 Will Kellog and Sagan who was Mead fan wrote Runaway GHG paper. Atmosphere Endangered Endangering NIH USAID and NSSM 200. MediaLogging.com Bateson Huxley And many others Gordon MacDonald, Reichelderfer, 4 gens of Berjerknes, Wallenbergs, This is a huge story. The Quest 1981 DOD film and Unchained Goddess Bell/Galton Malthusian Verhulst Vietnam Jian Song China George Bush NWO.
Very much like the idea of the social history of AI. It feels like the first drafts of that history--even the best of it like the Atlantic essay and the posts in the Money Stuff newsletter by Matt Levine and in Stratechery by Ben Thompson--are very much focused on the boardroom. I hope someone is writing about the experiences of rank and file OpenAI workers, not as followers of the great leader, but as agents in their own right.
I've always been interested in the resonances of 1930s politics and ideas with the present...this piece has me more jazzed to get my hands on the book.
Thanks for the kind mention!