Algorithms are probably the most sophisticated tools that people have had at their disposal since the beginnings of human history. They have transformed science

Algorithms will be what we want them to be: we must choose the world we want to live in.

The gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek. We depend on—we believe in—algorithms to help us

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