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The book was praised for its insightful take on Calvinist ideas in American history and their relationship to technology.
Megan O'Geeblin's great book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, is sort of all about a lot of the Christian mythology operating in a subversive way here.
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The book was praised for its insightful take on Calvinist ideas in American history and their relationship to technology.
Megan O'Geeblin's great book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, is sort of all about a lot of the Christian mythology operating in a subversive way here.
I just finished Megan O'Gibbon's book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, and I just loved it.
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The hosts discussed how O'Gieblyn's book argued that metaphors about AI are bidirectional, shaping how we think about both machines and ourselves.
Megan O'Geeblin makes in her truly fantastic book, God, Human, Animal, Machine, that metaphors are bidirectional. You start applying a metaphor to something else and soon enough it sort of loops around in your mind and you're applying it to yourself. You have a computer, and the metaphor is like the computer is like a mind. Then you begin thinking your mind is like a computer because you get so used to talking about it that way.