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Information wants to be free.' So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first. I say that information doesn't deserve to be free. Cybernetic totalists love to think of the stuff as if it were alive and had its own ideas and ambitions. But what if information is inanimate? What if it's even less than inanimate, a mere artifact of human thought? What if only humans are real, and info..
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People are demonstrably insane when it comes to assessing human sentience.
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Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
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Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow.
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The great thing about crummy software is the amount of employment it generates.
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There is no difference between machine autonomy and the abdication of human responsibility.
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There is nothing more gray, stultifying, or dreary than life lived inside the confines of a theory.
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Digital information is really just people in disguise.
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