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This text discusses Norbert Wiener's contributions to social theory and technology ethics, emphasizing his belief that ideas act as causal forces in history through information feedback loops. It highlights his advocacy for open, liberal societies over authoritarian ones and identifies him as an early "tech prophet" who warned about the dangers of nuclear arms, unaligned artificial intelligence (the value-alignment problem), and the potential for technology to facilitate fascism.
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Industrial Revolution
publication of The Human Use of Human Beings (1950 and 1954 editions)
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"Indeed, Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history, politics, and society, ideas matter."Source
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"A healthy society—one that gives its members the means to pursue life in defiance of entropy—allows information sensed and contributed by its members to feed back and affect how the society is governed."Source
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"the machine like the djinnee, which can learn and can make decisions on the basis of its learning, will in no way be obliged to make such decisions as we should have made"Source
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"threatening new Fascism dependent on the machine à gouverner"Source
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