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oulipo

Our social machines. A judiciary, political, health, social system which works relatively smoothly

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Can we call these machines?

Obviously, they're defined with rules and algorithms and everything.

The ultimate technology is the social technology: the one whose purpose is to make people happy

I'd argue that like all technology, social technology serves to increase efficiency, not happiness. Highly recommend

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Technological_Society

Really? I feel exactly the opposite, that as a species we are extremely primitive in that regard. We underinvest into social "technology." Systems of collaboration and alignment aren't widespread, and research into it isn't taken seriously

Don't get me wrong, what we have is working (so far? Political happenings around the world don't inspire confidence)

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