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by Vecr 1305 days ago
How about this? Frame one: man beats woman at chess. Frame two: woman shoots man with automatic pistol. Not sure how deep the original really is if you think about it...
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The problem is you are trying to make something "deep" when it wasn't trying to be
IIRC, Russel's thesis was something to the effect of ultimate supremecy of man over machine. I associate "Sept 1952" as the issue. The last frame suggested a certain obviousness and nonchalance in the man unplugging the computer, as if no great debate would be involved. I wonder if the article itself might now evidence too much of innocence back in that day, aside from a prediction that computers would eventually beat humans at chess. Too much innocence regarding technological imperitives and the technosphere?
What?! That's not comparable at all. The computer isn't murdered, it's just off. Also even if you did destroy the computer, that's not murder.
It's not comparable because computers are things but women are not.
My intention was for the woman to shoot the man, it's possible I wrote it wrong. They could be both men or aliens or even computers/robots with human like intelligence. If they were both thinking computers the "pistol" could really be a human paid in Monero to go smash the other computers hard drives and backups.