Curious to read Gladwell’s new book. I love the idea of fakes and frauds and what they teach us about communication. Think I’ll get the audiobook version for the car. Dying to crack open Machines Like Me, Luis. This job keeps sucking me back in.
2019-09-20
Hey Jesse, I came across a short review of Gladwell’s book you might find of interest.
It is human nature to take the route of least resistance in such interactions and it only becomes an issue when there is some kind of blow-back as a result.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/why-do-we-assume-people-are-telling-us-the-truth/2019/09/06/c51641fc-bf59-11e9-a5c6-1e74f7ec4a93_story.html
then there is another find from a review about McEwens book in the New Yorker
(McEwan’s penchant for moral geometry—perspectival riddles, insoluble questions of responsibility—dovetails with the recent prominence of A.I. ethics. From algorithmic bias and the advent of sex-robot brothels to the “existential risk” that theorists like Nick Bostrom posit, we worry not just what robots might do to us but what we might do to them, to say nothing of what they might do to us because of what we already do to one another. A pressing question is whether a human mind could ever enter into a “meaningful” relationship with an artificial consciousness.)
How many “meaningful” romantic relationships with others or androids would the human mind really pursue or worry about in real life? Not many I bet.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/22/man-woman-and-robot-in-ian-mcewans-new-novel