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Extrapolating from Scott’s “high modernist” examples, however, suggests that where AI systems are deployed, new forms of local knowledge will eventually spring up around them to make them seem to work (an extension of the “[ghost work](https://ghostwork.info/)” that already goes into AI). Scott speculates that “the greater the pretense of and insistence on an officially decreed micro-order, the greater the volume of nonconforming practices necessary to sustain that fiction.”
The Slovenly Wilderness
Rob Horning
To deliver both power and pleasure to users, interaction designers think first conceptually, then in terms of behavior, and last in terms of interface.
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Alan Cooper
Can I give her a message?’ ‘Just that I may be a little late checking in: I’m going to a gang war.’ ‘Oh wow. Well, have a good time. I’ll let her know.’
Only Forward
Michael Marshall Smith
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