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It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

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The intentions of the cybernetic totalist tribe are good. They are simply following a path that was blazed in earlier times by well-meaning Freudians ...more

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But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can't tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you've just lowered your own standards of intelligence to suc...more

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This digital revolutionary still believes in most of the lovely deep ideals that energized our work so many years ago. At the core was a sweet faith i...more

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Something like missionary reductionism has happened to the internet with the rise of web 2.0. The strangeness is being leached away by the mush-making...more

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Turing presented his new offering in the form of a thought experiment, based on a popular Victorian parlor game. A man and a woman hide, and a judge i...more

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Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.

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When I work with experimental gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment, I am always reminded of how small changes in the ...more

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Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expec...more

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The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a...more

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Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that infor...more

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Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If...more

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An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create standardize...more

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People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.

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A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but also does so according to principle...more