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Picked this up twice now. I simply can't hold on to it. Reading it feels like a chore. It's not the topic. I write myself on the intersection of logic, language and imagination on my blog. I am an algorithmic affectionato, but the book is too dense in overlapping philosophical and academic ideas that you lose any sense of practicality or point the author is trying to make.
As a foundational survey into cultural impact of the algorithm it is well suited however. Got a lot as a source from it for my Bachelor.
Also in the age of LLM this not so old book has not aged well "the fear of being replaced by the machine" is a consequence of our algorithmic thinking. No it's the reality now. The author simply underestimated how far algorithms with stochastic pattern matching can get us.
Picked this up twice now. I simply can't hold on to it. Reading it feels like a chore. It's not the topic. I write myself on the intersection of logic, language and imagination on my blog. I am an algorithmic affectionato, but the book is too dense in overlapping philosophical and academic ideas that you lose any sense of practicality or point the author is trying to make.
As a foundational survey into cultural impact of the algorithm it is well suited however. Got a lot as a source from it for my Bachelor.
Also in the age of LLM this not so old book has not aged well "the fear of being replaced by the machine" is a consequence of our algorithmic thinking. No it's the reality now. The author simply underestimated how far algorithms with stochastic pattern matching can get us.