Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation

English language

Published July 1, 1976

ISBN:
9780716704638

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3 stars (1 review)

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a barnacled treasure

3 stars

Often rambling, ranting, and rigorous in odd measure, still a strong critique of computers-substituted-for-intelligence-AI. Computers ought not do some things we will come to believe they are capable of: through the instrumentalist and reductionist narrowing of rationality (and history) to what is computable and recordable; mistaking analogies and models of humans as information processors; and compulsive, addictive, and imperialist closing off of multiple and incommensurate perspectives.