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Machines may “feel” (sense) anything we build sensors for—touch taste sound light time gravity—but representing these things as large integers derived from electric signals means that any machine “feeling” is far more different from ours than even bumblebee vision or bat sonar.
One Day, AI Will Seem as Human as Anyone. What Then?
wired.com
Russi was typical of traffic agents in New York, and elsewhere: the work was no longer as gendered as it had once been, but the people who ticketed cars in big cities were often black or Hispanic. (The police force, by contrast, was mostly white—and lived mostly in Staten Island and the suburbs, compared with parking enforcers, who lived mostly in the city.)
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
The only security we have is our neighbors’ approval. An archist can break a law and hope to get away unpunished, but you can’t ‘break’ a custom; it’s the framework of your life with other people. We’re only just beginning to feel what it’s like to be revolutionaries, as Shev put it in the meeting today. And it isn’t comfortable.”
The Dispossessed
Ursula K. Le Guin
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