I’VE BEEN NAILED

So in the D&D thread on the Deep Blue article, I was getting a bit liberal with my misanthropist technophile rhetorical flourishes. This particular response makes me chuckle a bit:

Not to attack you or anything, but you get overly dramatic over bizarre stuff. What do you mean by “This comparatively simple inert machine generated genuine panic and emotion in humanity’s best representative; in the face of the machine, we flinched first” exactly? It seems like you’re turning the frustration of one person into a species-wide defeat that we all felt — and on top of it, you really seem to relish it. It seems odd to me that you simultaneously place such great significance upon machines performing the tasks they were built to perform and such great satisfaction in humans “losing.”

After I gave my colloquium on Friday, there was some discussion about how my intuitions concerning machines and technology didn’t align with most people at the talk. A certain Mr. Swenson suggested, via an illusion to Jane Goodall, that perhaps I had spent so much time around machines that I actually started to think like them .

Well, if loving machines is wrong then I don’t wanna be right.