visitor

A busy day at work preparing the next workshop and various other bits and bobs. I also finished book #5, a translation of Joseph Weizenbaum's book computer power and human reason. The book was originally published in 1976 but is still as relevant. The technical aspects on computing, epistemology and ethics are still as valid today and probably even more relevant today with all the AI hubris. He also writes a lot about psychology, child development and sociology. Those bits felt a little dated but this is well outside my field of knowledge His argument is essentially that our dependence on machines and science has shaped our view of the world to the extent that we no longer recognise other views that are equally valid but not computable. This view of the world then limits our actions taking agency from us.

We also had a visitor this evening which promptly featured in today's blip.