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AI and the Myth of the Machine

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By Wayne Allensworth Humanity is on the brink of a social, political, and economic transformation that could complete an historical cycle of dehumanization that began with the industrial revolution and the creation of mass society. We have all heard the warnings about the implications of Artificial Intelligence — AI, as everyone knows it. But the claims of an “extinction level” event in our...

The Blind Watchmaker (The Permanent Things at Bay)

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By Wayne Allensworth A French TV documentary from the 2000s showed Amazonian rainforest tribesmen reacting to images of the modern world. Their eyes were wide with amazement — and, I think, some sense of sadness, even of foreboding. Their reaction to astronauts on the Moon was one of dismay, much, as I recall, like that of my great grandmother, who viewed the landings as somehow blasphemous. The...

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