
018 - The Cybernetic Brain, Part 1: Ontological Theatre
General Intellect Unit
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The Importance of Adaptive Technology
This is in contrast with almost all objects we actually interact with, like cars, televisions, toasters, uh, bridges. Almost anything you can name doesn't have these characteristics, right? Like the cars don't adapt to fucking anything. You know, even even the smartest machines in your presence, like the, your phone or your computer, it doesn't adapt to shit, right? It's famously doesn't connect to the Wi-Fi and makes a point of not interacting with its environment. Yeah. I think you can say that a lot of these machines have over time been given adaptive characteristics - but fundamentally they are designed to be indifferent to their environments. That is the point of
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