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well-studied physical circumstances (i.e.

the completeness of physical explanations based on

when he invited me to his home in Princeton to

the typical care and certification of engineering disciplines

the formalism for computation became that of computing an

can be encoded as a unique integer. As with Turing

computation became firmly based on the foundations set out by

and I am worried that it is much more pernicious than even his worst

from his descriptions in chapter 10 of his own work on modeling some aspects of

will provide yet another revolution. The machines

and from the beginning of the 20th century

people became modulators of how a large source of energy was used.

energy from a steam engine or a water wheel was

featured in Errol Morris’s 1997 documentary Fast

literally. The human use of human beings

“Patiency Is Not a Virtue: AI and the Design of Ethical Systems

reeking of racism or species-ism. Many people would find the

the capacity to resist the allure of treating an apparent person as a person

and to train those entitled to operate them.

just as we license pharmacists (and crane operators!)