The first guy to invent a chatbot was horrified that it fooled people into thinking it was a nearly human level intelligence. He concluded that people believe this, in part, because they first think humans are basically machines. Chatbot hype and soullesness are related!

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The idea that you can just “teach computer science” and be apolitical is a beautiful dream that expired in the 2000s, at the latest. Computer science has re-organized every facet of our society: it is inherently political. Instead of taking this idea seriously, we ran from it. Now we live in hell.

never ask a distributed systems engineer what time it is