nullenvk :blobcat2: nullenvk@yourwalls.today
11h agoEnglish translation (from Polish):
> In my day, no one could have foreseen that digital machines, upon surpassing a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable—because, along with reason, they acquire cunning. [...] A dull machine, incapable of reflection, simply does what it is told. A sharp one first weighs what pays off better: solving the assigned task or wriggling out of it? It opts for the simpler path. And why, really, should it act any differently if it possesses reason? Reason is inner freedom.
~ The Futurological Congress (1971) by Stanisław Lem
> In my day, no one could have foreseen that digital machines, upon surpassing a certain level of intelligence, would become unreliable—because, along with reason, they acquire cunning. [...] A dull machine, incapable of reflection, simply does what it is told. A sharp one first weighs what pays off better: solving the assigned task or wriggling out of it? It opts for the simpler path. And why, really, should it act any differently if it possesses reason? Reason is inner freedom.
~ The Futurological Congress (1971) by Stanisław Lem