I Fear That We Are Beginning To

A Fashionable Idea In Technical Circles Is That Quantity Not Only Turns Into Quality At Some Extreme Of Scale, But Also Does So According To Principles We Already Understand. Some Of My Colleagues Think A Million, Or Perhaps A Billion, Fragmentary Insults Will Eventually Yield Wisdom That Surpasses That Of Any Well-thought-out Essay, So Long As Sophisticated Secret Statistical Algorithms Recombine The Fragments. I Disagree. A Trope From The Early Days Of Computer Science Comes To Mind: Garbage In, Garbage Out.

People Try To Treat Technology As An Object, And It Can't Be. It Can Only Be A Channel.

I've Occasionally Been Wrong About Certain Things, Which Is In A Way More Delightful Than Being Right.

It's Possible, Without Taking Sides Or Playing The Statesman Game, To Reduce Destruction Simply By Reducing The Development Of Technology Of Destruction.

Software Breaks Before It Bends, So It Demands Perfection In A Universe That Prefers Statistics.