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July 4, 2013 12:54 pm PDT
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Teaching computers teaches us how little we understand aboutourselves
My latest Locus column is Teaching Computers Shows Us How Little We Understand About Ourselves, an essay about how ideas we think of as simple and well-understood -- names, families, fairness in games -- turn out to be transcendentally complicated when we try to define them in rule-based terms for computers.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ldluoEPOW6E/story01.htm
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