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What Plato wanted two thousand years ago—and Soviet cyberneticists wanted forty years ago—was a complex-systems engineer or, perhaps, an AI. But, prior to AI’s invention, a central authority could not make decisions based on local
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“Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Birkir’s 2025 Year in Books
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