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According to Flusser, these things are not machines, they are apparatus. Machines process things, apparatus process information. They accept inputs and return outputs. They emulate theories and thoughts - like rules in games, differentiating them from toys, these theories/rules are one thing that make them what they are - to achieve some output, certain inputs have to be provided.

Ruthless? They are far from unpredictable, how can something like that be ruthless, if you know how it will respond to specific inputs?