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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“… we are in a political deadlock about climate change, partly because the computers are at a deadlock. Calculations run on one set of computers warn us of an imminent ecological catastrophe, but another set of computers prompts us to watch videos that cast doubt on those warnings. Which set of computers should we believe? Human politics is now also computer politics.”

— Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
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