PMs were supposed to be artificial intellects, and their decisions were supposed to be rational, people accepted reforms from them that they never would have accepted from a human government—in the same way that people accept the mathematical solution of a calculator above the solution of a human being. But it was as fake as hiding a man under the chessboard of the mechanical Turk—because behind all those decisions were our parameters. Our biases. We mystified the public with the idea that the machines were intelligent, maybe even conscious, when they really were nothing more than incredibly
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