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Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. by Radim on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:52AM (#14601764)
"The machines themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines."

- God Emperor of Dune, Frank Herbert (a prescient book on social feedback loops, my favourite in the series)

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Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. by thinkfurther on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @05:08AM (#14602159)
> Our main way of relating ourselves to others is like things relate themselves to things on the market. We want to exchange our own personality, or as one says sometimes, our "personality package", for something.

-- Erich Fromm ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu-7UDT0Xe4&t=1m34s )

> The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

-- Konrad Zuse

And when Picasso said that computers are useless because they only provide answers, was he just being witty, or pointing at an abyss, knowingly or not?

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