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The mechanism that is being enacted when the Optometrist goes to work is particularly interesting to those attempting to reconcile the opaque operation of complex computational problem solving with human needs and desires. On the one hand is a problem so fiendishly complicated that the human mind cannot fully grasp it, but one that a computer can ingest and operate upon. On the other is the necessity of bringing a human awareness of ambiguity, unpredictability, and apparent paradox to bear on the problem – an awareness that is itself paradoxical, because it all too often exceeds our ability to ...more
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future
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