Been mulling “freedom” quite a bit recently. In part because we’re working our way through Ken Burns’s series on the American Revolution. But also in relation to threads like https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/115791005472764489 by @simon_brooke and @amiserabilist’s reply which brings the sheer scale of compute to the fore.

I think this century is going to be about being much less free.

The Founding Fathers sculpted a country utterly obsessed with freedom to exploit. AI projects are awash with notions of ‘good’ uses but…