Geoff Fitzpatrick on Nostr: The attribution of intelligence to machines, or other nerd deities obscures more than ...
The attribution of intelligence to machines, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful.
Jaron Lanier - YOU ARE NOT A GADGET
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