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The Cache Flush

By: Avdi Grimm
  • Summary

  • A programmer's audio scrapbook, from Avdi Grimm. Short selected readings from books and papers at the intersection of code and ethics, sociology, psychology, politics, history, and systems thinking.
    © 2023 Avdi Grimm and ShipRise LLC
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Episodes
  • The Cache Flush Episode 13: The Grammar of Systems
    May 18 2023
    Systems can be simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic… but even that model is too simple, because they can also be all of these at once! Notes:
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    7 mins
  • The Cache Flush 012: Computer Power and Human Reason
    May 10 2023
    In 1964, Joseph Weizenbaum created the famous "ELIZA" program, with which a human user could hold a simulated "therapy" session. The implications of the human reactions to ELIZA and later research inspired Weizenbaum to write one of the formative cautionary reflections on ethics in artificial intelligence. Today, as ChatGPT storms the world, this book is more relevant than ever.
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    8 mins
  • The Cache Flush Episode 11: The Closed World
    May 3 2023
    In this episode, selections from Chapter 2 of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Notes Transcript This is the Cache Flush, a programmer’s audio scrapbook. This is episode 11, recorded Sunday, April 30th, 2023. Today I have some selections from chapter two of the Closed World Computers and […]
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    10 mins

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