Reports of our death are an exaggeration Part 2
Of the division of labour between mind and body, Nietzsche & the Camden Cat, AI as a cheapest-to-deliver strategy, LibraryThing, and a better use for this technology
On being a machine
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
—Arthur C. Clarke’s third law
We are in a machine age.
We call it that because machines have proven consistently good at doing things humans are too weak, slow, inconstant or easily bored to do well: mechanical things.
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