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David Weinberger

Everyday Chaos

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  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    But the AI only has the instructions, not the values or principles
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    The author, George R. R. Martin, has said that he feels a moral obligation not to reinforce the calming notion that some lives are protected in wars because they happen to be the protagonists. Literature should reflect the truth that our lives are equally precarious, and that war is a horrific waste of them.
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    For the demon, explanations are exactly the same as predictions, except the predictions look forward and the explanations look backward.
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    echnodeterminism has fallen so far into disrepute that just about the only people who seem to be technodeterminists are those who think the internet is a threat to civilization.
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    Technodeterminism is the belief that technology causes changes in a culture and society. How wide and deep those changes are, and how inevitable they are, determines just how much of a technodeterminist you are.
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    “generative adversarial network
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    The historian of science Thomas Kuhn said scientific progress should be seen, like evolution, as “a process driven from behind, not pulled from ahead.
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    Generativity assumes that one thing leads to an uncountable and unpredictable set of anothers
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    Traditional progress assumes one thing leads to another:
  • Maria José Sandovalhas quoted5 years ago
    Generativity is the degree to which interoperability enables unanticipation.
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