Orit Halpern
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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Like contemporary thinkers in science technology studies or that are critically thinking, you know, don't want to be technophobic and want to be more, you know, techno positive, shall we say, are saying, you know, there's a silver lining behind this whole decentering, making humans equivalent to machines and animals and everything else.
And that is that, indeed, that might actually reconfigure how we think about ourselves.
And there might actually be an opportunity, new opportunities to work with our technologies that they may have possibilities to break certain ideas about, say, biological determinism or sort of social order as it was beforehand.
And obviously, these are very challenging technologies.
But cyberneticians themselves, I would totally agree with John.
At one point, Warren McCullough says to another very famous mathematician, John von Neumann, who kind of constructed the digital computer and did all the math for the bomb, in a kind of conversation about whether machines could become autonomous.
kind of pre-conversation about artificial general intelligence, if you will.
McCullough said about the neural net, he said, I think what we did and did fairly well is build a brain if only it were to go psychotic.
And this is a quote, okay?
I'm just quoting pretty much.
What he meant...
And it's a fundamental problem for computing, actually, in general, and for neural networks, as we all know, they have a problem with causality.
We know that large language models, for example, can't really assign how they learned.
They just kind of replicate or create an endpoint, but they have a problem with time and space, in short.
Machines can't tell, for example, if the data is new or if it's retrieved from memory.
And in order to get the math and the logic of the neural net to work, you basically had to evacuate time.
And this is an ongoing issue.
But aside from the theory of it, I also want to mention that a very big part of cybernetics and things like game theory was the idea that human beings don't make good decisions.
And therefore, they need computers.
They need mathematical and rational tools because we're not rational.
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