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Welcome @henryfarrell! Henry is a professor of international affairs and author of several books, including the award winning Of Privacy and Power. He has agreed to do an AMA for the /books channel. Reply with your questions (please make sure to tag him so he can easily find them)
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@henryfarrell What lessons from history do you find most relevant to today’s political climate? What rhymes?
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Henry Farrell
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I wrote a piece today about how some of the political debates right now remind me of what Ireland looked like in the 1950s - https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/preventing-the-future. But more generally, I buy into Cosma Shalizi's argument that we are still in the throes of the Long Industrial Revolution, and that soi-disant "AI" is an aftershock of the extension of markets and bureaucracy - http://bactra.org/weblog/699.html . Cosma and I have a riff on that argument here - https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/06/21/artificial-intelligence-is-a-familiar-looking-monster-say-henry-farrell-and-cosma-shalizi
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