A great book outlining many fallacies of tech optimism

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨yogthos@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.ml⁩

these passages in particular were rather insightful in my opinion

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obbeel@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
Nice, paving the way for free information on Lemmy. I hope Sci-Hub will be fine too.

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a_Ha@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
is it from one of these ? :
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2015,
PDF, 18.31 MB
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering Robert L. Glass, 2003
PDF, 921 KB
( amazing website ! Thanks 👍 )

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- yogthos@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  It's from Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation, but the other two look fun too. And yeah it's a really nice site.
  
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  - a_Ha@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
    ok, here it is :
    Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgement to Calculation
    Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976
    PDF, 24.10 MB
    Computer Power and Human Reason-1976
    
    one more - - looks nice :
    The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
    Amy Webb, 2019
    ::: spoiler spoiler A call-to-arms about the broken nature of artificial intelligence, and the powerful corporations that are turning the human-machine relationship on its head. :::
    
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a_Ha@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
... or from here ? :
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- a_Ha@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago
  2 communities about this :
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