“The new and real agencies of the learning machine are also literal-minded. If we program a machine for winning a war, we must think well what we mean by winning. A learning machine must be programmed by experience. The only experience of a nuclear war which is not immediately catastrophic is the experience of a war game. If we are to use this experience as a guide for our procedure in a real emergency, the values of winning which we have employed in the programming games must be the same values which we hold at heart in the actual outcome of a war. We can fail in this only at our immediate, utter, and irretrievable peril. We cannot expect the machine to follow us in those prejudices and emotional compromises by which we enable ourselves to call destruction by the name of victory.”

― Norbert Wiener, Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Reissue of the 1961 second edition

I need more of this omg

BY ROUND OF APPLAUSE

my bag goes perfectly with my blouse lel

I’m so used to posting an edit or picture on Twitter now and a mutual or a random just steals it and posts it immediately after with like no additional input. Really cool

The internet was not rly like this. It’s all gone

playing chess in the morning physics in the afternoon piano at night im becoming asian