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31 October 2023, around 4.31.

‘…we must fall back upon the wholesome truth that we cannot delegate our intellectual functions, and say to a machine, to a formula, to a rule, or to a dogma, I am too lazy to think, do please think for me.’ —Edward Sang (‘On Mechanical Aids to Calculation. A Lecture to the Actuarial Society of […]

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1 November 2023, around 4.25.

Ms. Ludwig XV 7 (83.MR.177), fol. 124v, ca. 1405. ((This image appeared in Lorraine Daston’s delightful Rules, and it seemed worthwhile to scrounge up a color version and make a note of it for later.)) In a sterling example of the law of unintended consequences, the more officials attempted to limit discretion by heaping up […]

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