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Had the chance to crank through more than half of Sherry Turkle's The Second Self. I'll just say that a perspective on the philosophy of AI from 1985 is fascinating, but a perspective on the people who work on AI in 1985 is not. Am about halfway through Destiny Disrupted: A history of the world through Islamic Eyes and I'm enjoying it immensely. Ummayads and Abassids and Fatimites and all the rest cease to be blank names and become people. Just started Ken Alibek's Biohazard and it's unsurprising, unrevealing and fucking terrifying.