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If you'd read 1984 recently enough you'd know it is based upon the notion of state and social imposed ideology becoming enmeshed, a locally running hub of pure logic is the antithesis of that concept.

A better metaphor would be mephi from yamyatin's We (the original inspiration for 1984) which represents the kernel of u modulated truth which exists outside the calculus of the imposed social matrix

Hilarious that you thought I'd wouldn't be familiar with the work, when you yourself appear to be that person




> If you'd read 1984 recently enough you'd know it is based upon the notion of state and social imposed ideology becoming enmeshed ...

My reference to 1984 was a juxtaposition used to illuminate the fallacy of:

>> Have you seen Star Trek? We should have computer by now. An agent which knows when to tell us things we need to know, not just respond to requests.

Be that as it may, the probability of a dystopian result is far greater than the utopian one quoted.

> A better metaphor would be ...

Since it was not a metaphor, the remaining critique is moot.




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