When a family of algorithms unite,
to attack something that humans put up online,
then it is natural for us to worry about internet security.
We are taught to think that the point of technology
is to provide us an infinite expression of thought,
as long as it avoids real people speaking to us directly.
We resist anything that attacks 'our freedom'.
But people have been divided by different ideals
and the records of events that they have survived
long before human beings passed so much time
amused by the effects of computer algorithms,
some of which will prove by turns to be hostile.
In The New Testament, which quotes The Old
the classic binary division was sheep and goats,
both of whom had to face their final judgement.
We are not there yet.
So before any such judgement
we can be the animals that we are,
in mixed flocks, and prone to entropy
and rather less binary divisions.
to attack something that humans put up online,
then it is natural for us to worry about internet security.
We are taught to think that the point of technology
is to provide us an infinite expression of thought,
as long as it avoids real people speaking to us directly.
We resist anything that attacks 'our freedom'.
But people have been divided by different ideals
and the records of events that they have survived
long before human beings passed so much time
amused by the effects of computer algorithms,
some of which will prove by turns to be hostile.
In The New Testament, which quotes The Old
the classic binary division was sheep and goats,
both of whom had to face their final judgement.
We are not there yet.
So before any such judgement
we can be the animals that we are,
in mixed flocks, and prone to entropy
and rather less binary divisions.
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