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  1. ‘The art of logic therefore being (as we have mentioned), too late a precaution,[1] and in no way remedying[7] the matter, has tended more to confirm errors, than to disclose truth. Our only remaining hope and salvation is to begin the whole labor of the mind again; not leaving it to itself, but directing it perpetually from the very first, and attaining our end as it were by mechanical aid.’ Lord Bacon’s MCMII, Novum Organon #Art #Logic #Philosophy #Mechanisation #Experimentation #Alienation #Ai #ApocalypseEmpires #AbnormalEthics #ForItsOwnSake !

    To the autonomous control of information, Artificial Information and the colonial destruction of Worlds? gutenberg.org/files/45988/4598

  2. We've been quiet here, but behind-the-scenes we've been working on @LivingWithMachines data from Zooniverse. The 'language of mechanisation' datasets are now available!

    Language of Mechanisation: annotated historical newspaper articles doi.org/10.23636/5t9m-0g59

    OCR and crowdsourced annotations, Language of Mechanisation, JSON files doi.org/10.23636/z634-km37

    #newspapers #crowdsourcing #mechanisation #language

    Edit: the DOIs work now!