Chad Fowler
@chadfowler
Some day soon, a company started and managed by a computer program will employ someone you know. As a human, wow would you feel about working for a company founded and managed by (in some cases fairly opaque) algorithms? How is this different from working for one of the FAANGs or GE or FedEx?
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Philip Sheldrake
@sheldrake
Drivers and warehouse operators know what this feels like already (per your FedEx example). If they don’t follow the route the computer determines they have to file exception reports. So much for ‘life on the open road’.
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depatchedmode
@depatchedmode
Most of my thoughts about this are rooted in Accelerando, which was more of a cautionary tale about the trajectory of its current moment than a blueprint for the future — which it became. And so, I think I’d feel neutral. I care little about the actor, but a lot about the impact-on and agency-of the recipient.
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