Rather like Kipling, I think Dahl was a product of his time, and was more than a little bit of a provocateur. An interesting and entertaining fellow, quite handy, but probably not on the road to sainthood by anyone's standards.
HALO Effect Originally shared by Noah Friedman This is how automation is probably going to kill us all: tell a computer to optimize for something and it will. (This observation is just a variation on the nanotech grey goo problem.)
The Service Economy I've also been there, done that, only with much less fear for my life. via Meep https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c0ea571e4b06484c9fd4c21?ec_carp
Yep.
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It may be a good thing Dahl was talked out of this idea.
Rather like Kipling, I think Dahl was a product of his time, and was more than a little bit of a provocateur. An interesting and entertaining fellow, quite handy, but probably not on the road to sainthood by anyone's standards.
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