I really dislike Naomi Bashkansky’s blog post “Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy.” It made me feel very uncomfortable.
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Technology discourse and its problems; a close-read of Bashkansky’s blog post
I recently wrote Against telepathy—or, Conduit should engage with authoritarianism concerns, analyzing the blog post Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy. I want to now more deeply analyze the way Bashkansky writes about telepathy and relate it to how people talk about technology. Regard this post as an extension of the previous one; if you need more context, read the previous one first. I will read further into Bashkansky’s words than I did in my previous post, in a way that some would regard as unfair. As I discussed in my previous post: [The post] highlights that Bashkansky…
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