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as the model for robotsExponential.)  Jones argues that todays conditions are different: what were seeing is jobs being carved up into tasks.too? Or is it a permanent reality as humans become part of the computational infrastructure of artificial artificial intelligence -- the term Jeff Bezos likes to use to describe the Mechanical Turk platform? (This sort of linguistic absorption of humans has a history that Jones doesnt explore: the earliest computers were women performing intricate calculations at NASA.

workers are paid pennies to train the AIs that will eventually replace them entirely.the number of microtaskers is huge and growing.

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book review: The rise and rise of YouTubes younger.and casts a cold eye on the commodities we surround ourselves with (to make up for all the ways capital fails us) while making bold.

its basically the run-on sentence—that was at once true to the particular motion of a car going around and around.Its still the fifties; the economys still expanding; we can still cling to ideas of expansion and progress.

but I hope to think less about which act one prefers (though this would be disingenuous to ignore) than how we think about influence.beginning with a materialist definition of rock n roll and ending by arguing over the Velvet Underground (too ironic? Too elitist?).