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060 - The Human Use of Human Beings, Part 1

General Intellect Unit

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The Principle of Equality in Cybernetics

Norman Wiener's second book on cybernetics is titled "The Human Use of human beings" In it he argues that humans are like high variety machines who try to attenuate the variety of people down to a common sort of ready made unit. He also suggests that capitalism in its you know market form has these imminent fascist tendencies and we will come to know Skynet as a result.Wiener: It's remarkable how much of that is present so early, because this is the second text ever about cybernetics.

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