I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology.
Jaron LanierOne good test of whether an economy is humanistic or not is the plausibility of earning the ability to drop out of it for a while without incident or insult.
Jaron LanierAdvertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
Jaron LanierSoftware breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Jaron LanierThe cloud is driven by statistics, and even in the worst individual cases of personal ignorance, dullness, idleness, or irrelevance, every person is constantly feeding data into the cloud these days. The value of such information could be treated as genuine, but it is not. Instead, the blindness of our standards of accounting to all that value is gradually breaking capitalism.
Jaron Lanier