It is a world of men who look like Unix system administrators, without the Unix system administration skills.
Aug 262020
Identity, that spectator of what he calls himself,
That net and aggregate of energies in transient combination.
—Cunningham
It is a world of men who look like Unix system administrators, without the Unix system administration skills.
Nothing in psychology replicates as well as stereotypes.
Naive is a polite term for stupid, and stupid is a polite term for rotten.
I respect pretense, which suggests shame.
Stupid comes in only two flavors, as different as chocolate and vanilla: those who know they are, and those who don’t.
How do I know what I am until I see what I do?
People don’t change: they unfold.
Human development has increasingly prolonged childhood and adolescence, now often fifty years or more.
Until it has the appearance of liberty the prison is not complete.
As computers become more skilled at imitating human beings, so must we.