“But what possible reason could there be for comparing the unknown depths of the human psyche with the workings of an algorithm that can be expressed in 200 lines of Python?”
‘Terry Pratchett wrote every decent person’s favorite summary of the bedrock of humanist morality in a fantasy book for young readers called I Shall Wear Midnight: “Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.” Treating people as things can begin in many ways, but I think one of them is the idea that things can be people.’
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