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kleinbl00 · 2881 days ago · link · · parent · post: Elon Musk thinks we live in a simulated universe
Turkle's Alone Together is basically one big manifesto about how we know that programs don't think, but we don't "know know" and that much of our anthropomorphization is due to just how hard we'll subconsciously work to fill the uncanny valley. The number of people who studied computing formally and work with programs are an insignificant subset of the people who work with programs. 