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Omg I miss Unfogged so much

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The key problem with the Bordieu machine is that by using it you are inherently disqualified from doing so

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Because of my background in military machines, tanks and air planes I immediately thought of the Weaponizing machine. like much of the internet, good technology can be turned to evil purposes.

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I read your post first then Krugman's and he had some suggestions for machines: Magical Thinking, Anna Karenina and voodoo. There must be an infinity of machines.

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Genuinely LLMs would be good at the Goffman machine.

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I did seriously pitch that one to the DeepMind team

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The Feyerabend Machine - tells you that you're all arguing about different things using different worldviews and methods, and arbitrarily decides on the official consensus by astrology, and/or reading the entrails of chickens, or polling homeless people. But it's a lot of fun.

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It seems like The Habermas Machine can be added to Churchman’s hierarchy of inquiring systems, about which I wrote here: https://realizable.substack.com/p/c-west-churchmans-systems-epistemology

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In honour of your title: the Hawkwind machine - the LLM hallucinates wildly and you just realise the whole thing’s a bad trip, man. (This is my settled view anyway)

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