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Potemkin Villager
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The Star Fraction

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I recently reread this after a number of years and highly recommend it to folk on this forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_Fraction

MacLeod's take on AI is particularly prescient given the book was published in 1995.

It confirms my opinion that a better understanding of complex and desperately pressing issues
may be best obtained through good fiction writing.

I am a bit biased as I am about the same vintage as he and we seem to have lived
in the same part of North London and mixed with similar folk about the same time!

Enjoy
Overconfidence, not just expert overconfidence but general overconfidence,
is one of the most common illusions we experience. Stan Robinson
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