i fucking hate it when the world catches up to me. - ThreadSky

kevinbaker.bsky.social • 18 days ago

i fucking hate it when the world catches up to me.

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This has been my fear for a while. We all moan about beurocracy but ultimately no one hates it more than authoritarians.

I been afraid of what will happen when the bureaucratic apparatus can be automated and someone undesirable gains control of it

I didn't think it would happen this soon though

robot-bastard.bsky.social•18 days ago

Although I would say that bureaucracy just about *is* an AI, in that it seems to have agency but is in reality just non-agentic actors following an incredibly complex set of rules that interact in unexpected ways.

beenwrekt.bsky.social•18 days ago

Given a collision of topics in my timeline, I'm left with the question: Is radiology bureaucratic labor?

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

my conception of bureaucratic labor is essential "exception handling for an organization" so maybe?

beenwrekt.bsky.social•18 days ago

Need more than a tweet to make this argument, but cancer screening serves as a conditional switch to turn a healthy person into a "cancer patient."

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

There it is.

beenwrekt.bsky.social•18 days ago

And scene...

aelkus.bsky.social•18 days ago

yeah. moravec's paradox keeps manual labor untouched

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

A little more clearly.

robot-bastard.bsky.social•18 days ago

you're right, you *are* always saying it :D

winterreisende.bsky.social•18 days ago

The people I grew up around were quite open about this

winterreisende.bsky.social•18 days ago

When confronting the fact that it's brittle, they respond that the world would have to reorient itself around that brittleness

robot-bastard.bsky.social•18 days ago

"computer says no"

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

exactly.

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

Uh...

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

Lord give me the confidence of a substacker just now discovering this.

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

The idea that that this assault on the "pmc" is new is nonsense. It's been the one of the most important developments of the last 50 years.

(The PMC is much better understood in Gouldner's terms as a 'new class' with control but not ownership of production)

damashummus.bsky.social•18 days ago

Isn’t this just Braverman?

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

it's braverman+

kevinbaker.bsky.social•18 days ago

it's actually more inspired by reading Barbara Garson

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