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chuckadams ◴[] No.44006767[source]
I just can't get me enough of Raymond Chen and his wonderful walks down the dustier paths of memory lane. Feels like a more innocent time where I didn't feel like I was imminently going to be turned into paperclips.
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avidiax ◴[] No.44007294[source]
Yeah, the sense at that time was that you master the machine. Now, increasingly, the machines will master you if you aren't careful. Of course, the machines haven't really done anything to us. They've just been locked down and remotely controlled to deliver ads and misinformation.
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deadbabe ◴[] No.44008004[source]
The greatest trick machines ever pulled was making us believe they haven’t done anything to us.
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1. JadeNB ◴[] No.44008769[source]
> The greatest trick machines ever pulled was making us believe they haven’t done anything to us.

While "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is a cliché, I think there's still considerable meaning behind it, and I'd say the same holds in the "machines don't do anything to people" sense. Sure, a lot of decision-making and faceless authority is outsourced to machines, but it's still people who are doing that outsourcing, and if those people stopped deciding to put so much weight on the output of (intentionally and unintentionally) black-boxed algorithms then that power of the machines would vanish instantly.