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Cool. Look forward to listening to this. Always enjoy Charlie’s thoughts. But I’m pretty sure Philip K. Dick and his fellow travelers saw this trap coming half a century away.
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Just think of an AI automated civil service, implementing a bazillion contradictory regulations and policies, driven to maximize certain narrow statistics.
Then imagine someone like Trump and Co dumping new directions on it without knowledge (or care) of the side-effects.
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Well, Cory, if Charlie’s talk is as interesting and insightful as your writeup of it, I look forward viewing it!
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…after all, you can make someone pay attention to you by driving them nuts, something that’s often easier than pleasing them.
Hey I learned how to do that back in third grade!
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Fondly Fahrenheit…
He’s going to post a transcript on his website when he gets home on the 1st, too - which should be faster to get through than a nearly hour-long video.
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Thanks! Reading goes much faster and anyway I need to get back to reading Antipope. 
Must have read it it three times over more decades - never gets old.
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wrote to charlie stross about his podcast which was so entertaining includes a legal minefield on flying cars probably got into junk mailbox 
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/11/i-hate-cars.html
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