Corporate optimization creates both new species and new precarities

Evidence

Atwood scrutinizes how unregulated genetic and algorithmic optimization, driven by private capital, produces both new species and new precarities. The compound/pleeblands divide dramatizes the spatial logic of surveillance capitalism, where elite enclaves benefit from data extraction performed on marginalized populations outside the walls. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2370

Categorization

• XREF: Links to Zuboff, Benjamin, and Couldry critiques as stated, and to spatial stratification in Brave New World. — connects to: Optimizing for stated goals produces monstrous outcomes — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 655; Design choices optimizing for one task can cripple performance on the real task — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1221; Corporate capitalism arose from a long decline of entrepreneurial and proletarian phases (+7 more)

Related

• Firms shifted to permanent subcontracting of firm-specific component production (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Optimizing for stated goals produces monstrous outcomes #expands (0.60) — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 655
• Design choices optimizing for one task can cripple performance on the real task #expands (0.60) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 1221
• Corporate capitalism arose from a long decline of entrepreneurial and proletarian phases #expands (0.50)
• Mass culture and mass markets were integral to corporate capitalism’s ascendancy #expands (0.50)
• AI has evolved into many different species with unique strengths and behaviors. #expands (0.45) — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 93