Back in Zepellin, I open the presentation for the next SCOM and add a new slide about the Brahma proposal, putting in a series of bullet points the premise that emotion always creeps into whatever it is that humans do. While doing so, I think of all the emotion that goes into conceiving emotionless machines.
This is one of the central themes in TMIL: that chasing efficiency isn't an emotionless, ideologically empty pursuit.
