Varn Vlog: Nicolas D Villarreal on LLMs in Capitalism and Beyond
· 05.07.2023 · 01:00:06 ··· ··· Wednesday ·· 3 (3)
C. Derick Varn Nicolas D. Villarreal (nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com) is a writer and analyst on political economy and theory. He has contributed work to Palladium Magazine and Cosmonaut Magazine. He is the founder of Casper Forum (https://casperforum.org). We talk about his two recent articles on AI, LLMs, and their dystopic possibility under capitalism but their utopian potential in other systems.
Nico's two articles referred to in the interview can be found here:
https://cosmonautmag.com/2023/05/artificial-intelligence-universal-machines-and-killing-bourgeois-dreams/
https://nicolasdvillarreal.substack.com/p/against-butlerian-jihad
The two other articles mentioned:
Ian Wright's "Why Machines Don't Create Value" ( https://cosmonautmag.com/2021/10/why-machines-dont-create-value/ )
Simon McNeil's "Toward the Butlerian Jihad" ( https://simonmcneil.com/2023/05/29/toward-the-butlerian-jihad/)
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Crew: Host: C. Derick Varn
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