Everything Was Already AI

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References (in rough order of appearance)

How to Make Realistic Predictions About AI, Tantham https://curveshift.net/p/how-to-make-realistic-predictions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8enXRDlWguU& />
‘Large AI models are cultural and social technologies’, Farrell et al.

Artificial Intelligences, Herbert Simon

Debunking Economics, Keen

https://www.mic.com/articles/107896/scientists-finally-prove-why-pop-music-all-sounds-the-same

The Dorito Effect, Shatzker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRq0pESKJgg& />
The Stock Market is a Conventional Wisdom Processor: Why Trump’s Tariffs Crashed the Stock Market While the Trump Musk Payments Crisis Hasn’t (Yet), Tankus https://www.crisesnotes.com/content/files/2025/04/The-Stock-Market-is-a-Conventional-Wisdom-Processor-Why-Trump-s-Tariffs-Crashed-the-Stock-Market-While-the-Trump-Musk-Payments-Crisis-Hasn-t–Yet-.pdf

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/

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An Existing, Ecologically-Successful Genus Of Collectively Intelligent Artificial Creatures, Kuipers

AI Integration Is the New Moat, Tim O’Reilly https://www.oreilly.com/radar/integration-is-the-new-moat/

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notes on the industrialisation of decision making, Davies https://substack.com/home/post/p-177016285

the only message the channel can carry is a scream, Davies https://substack.com/home/post/p-151264334

The AI Circular Economy, Blakeley https://substack.com/@graceblakeley/p-176721998

The Case Against Generative AI, Zitron https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI, Farrell https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8reiauyQCM

Further reading

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4pWuwQq8M8Gzf9F9U0AYZW

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AI As a Normal Technology, Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor https://knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-as-normal-technology