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Devs and the Culture of Tech - Final part (unserious.substack.com)

submitted 4 months ago by UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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Hello all. People were very kind when I originally posted the start of this series. I've refrained from spamming you with every part but I thought I'd post to say the very final installment is done.

I got a bit weird with it this time as I felt like I had an infinite amount to say, all of which only barely got to the underlying point i was trying to make. So much that I wrote I also cut, it's ridiculous.

Anyway now the series is done I'm going to move on to smaller discrete pieces as I work on my book about Tech Culture's propensity to far-right politics. I'll be dropping interesting stuff I find, examples of Right Libertarians saying ridiculous things, so follow along if that's your jam.

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Ah, hell yeah, the much-anticipated finale.

Gonna give particular praise to the opening, because this really caught my eye:

Tech culture often denigrates humans through its assumptions that human skills, knowledge and functions can be improved through their replacement by technological replacements, and through transhumanist narratives that rely on a framing of human consciousness as fundamentally computational.

I've touched on the framing of human consciousness part myself - seems we may be on the same wavelength.

As for the whole "replacement by technological replacements" part...well, we've all seen the AI art slop-nami, its crystal fucking clear what you're referring to.

[–] UnseriousAcademic@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

Funnily enough that was the bit I wrote last just before hitting post on Substack. A kind of "what am I actually trying to say here?" moment. Sometimes I have to switch off the academic bit of my brain and just let myself say what I think to get to clarity. Glad it hit home.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to read that piece and have a look though the ensuing discussion.

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