🧵 LLM implementation pattern?
> .. to implement this initial step toward industrial automation, manufacturers had to overlook widespread inefficiencies and a loss of much of the knowledge and flexibility that was shared among manual machine operators. The perceived overarching benefit, however, was to disempower shop floor labor and concentrate knowledge and control in the hands of engineers and managers.
#WhiteCollarAI as #MachineTools
#NoblesMachineTools #DavidNoble thru #BrianTokar

“The distinguishing characteristic of #hegemonic #ideologies is that that require no proof or argument; their validity is assumed, understood, and ratified by convention, norms and accepted bounds of respectable discourse.” - #DavidNoble, Progress Without People

“The recognition that #technology is political constituted an important ideological breakthrough since it overcame the fatalism of #technological #determinism, long a staple of #capitalist apologetics” - #DavidNoble, Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment and the Message of Resistance

> [Progress Without People by David Noble]... with a foreword by Stan Weir. “Today, when respectable discourse still requires euphemistic substitutes for ‘capitalism’, it is difficult to remember that this term was itself a euphemism of sorts, a polite and dignified substitute for greed, extortion, coercion, domination, exploitation, plunder, war, and a murder.
https://resources.platform.coop/resources/progress-without-people-new-technology-unemployment-and-the-message-of-resistance/
#StanWeir #DavidNoble #ProgressWithoutPeople #Capitalism #CapitalismAsEuphemism

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> .. the Pentagon.. could design the factory of the future so.. it empowers managers and de-skills workers.. well studied. #DavidNoble.. was on the faculty of MIT, did major work.. particularly with regard to automation.. under military auspices, automation was designed to insure that decisions were taken away from skilled mechanics and put in the hands of.. managers to de-skill the workforce and empower management. There was no reason.. efficiency.. it sometimes harmed profit.
@bsmall2@mstdn.jp

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> ... the universities are not simply undergoing a technological transformation. Beneath that change, and camouflaged by it, lies another: the commercialization of higher education. For here as elsewhere technology is buta vehicle and a disarming disguise.

#DavidNoble of #ProgressWithoutPeople fame on
#TechnologyAsADisguise
@bsmall2@mstdn.jp

> What is driving this headlong rush to implement new technology with so little regard for deliberation of the pedagogical and economic costs and at the risk of student and faculty alienation and opposition? A short answer might be the fear of getting left behind, the incessant pressures of “progress”. But there is more to it....
https://monthlyreview.org/product/digital_diploma_mills/
http://helmut.knaust.info/resource/noble/DDM.pdf
#DavidNoble #DigitalDiplomaMills #ProgressIsALie

1984, #DavidNoble in
> #ForcesOfProduction.. details the.. developments, using historical records to test various hypotheses about why #CNC was eventually victorious while the #RecordPlaybackMachine more favorable to ordinary workers was rejected What, he asks, was decisive in the outcome? Was it the quest for precision, efficiency, flexibility, or even profitability for the corporation?
#DesignCriteria #DevelopmentGoals #AimOfProduction #ValuesOtherThanDomination or #Domination

> They did not believe in technological progress nor could they have: the alien idea was invented after them, to try and prevent their recurrence. In light of this invention[ideology/world view], the Luddites were cast as irrational, provincial, futile, and primitive...[They] were perhaps the last people in the West to perceive technology in the present tense, and to act upon that perception.

p. 4 #ProgressWithoutPeople #DavidNoble #Technology #Progress #SandInTheWheels #TheWellSweep

> Unencumbered by any alien and paralysing notion of of technological progress, they simply tried to arrest this assault upon their lives in any way they could. The had nothing against machinery, but they had no undue respect for it either. When choosing between machines and people.. between the capitalist's machines and their own lives, they had little problem deciding which came first --- p. 5 #ProgressWithoutPeople #DavidNoble #Technology #Progress

For the the dehumanizing power loom
(the advantage was not "reduced cost of production" but "more immediate control and management and prevention of embezzlement")
J.H. Sadler proposed and alternative, a "pendulum hand-loom on behalf of the weavers. It was designed to preserve the skills and jobs of the weavers and enable them to avoid the degrading conditions of factory life." p.6 of #ProgressWithoutPeople by #DavidNoble with #MaxineBerg make me see Scheme programming over #OfficeSoftware

> ... the weavers raised "a powerful and impressive critique of machinery, a critique that carried a genuine belief that technical change was not a 'given' but could be tempered and directed to match social ideals." They... consistently... demanded a social policy on technology. (They proposed, for example, a tax on power looms and a host of other legislative measures to protect the lives of weavers.)
#MaxineBerg on p.6 of #ProgressWithoutPeople by #DavidNoble on #TheMachine #Technology

I always enjoy reading L.M. Sacasas’ thoughts on the intersection of technology, society, and ethics. This article is no different. In addition to the quotation from G.K. Chesterton which provides the title for this post, Sacasas also quotes Wendell Berry as saying, “It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people […]

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/04/10/the-madman-is-the-man-who-has-lost-everything-except-his-reason/

> David Noble’s detailed examination of the origins of numerically controlled machine tools in the mid-20th century. ... to implement this initial step toward industrial automation, manufacturers had to overlook widespread inefficiencies and a loss of much of the knowledge... The perceived overarching benefit, however, was to disempower shop floor labor and concentrate knowledge and control in... managers.
- https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
#progress #tech #BrianTokar #DavidNoble

AI is Progress,
Progess is A LIe.

See #DavidNoble #ProgressWithoutPeople

There is always someone making decisions and choices somewhere, the magic words like progress, 'invisible hand' ( #EKHunt is more accurate with 'inivisibl foot', See #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel's #QuietRevolutioninWelfareEconomics ), 'free markets' just hide the responsibility.