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paganeltoday at 4:31 PM0 repliesview on HN

> Jevons does not save you either,

There's also a very strong Trurl and Klapaucius [1] component to this AI craziness, as in I remember a passage in Lem's The Cyberiad where either Trurl or Klapaucius were "discussing" with an intelligent/AGI robot and asking it for stuff-to-know/information, at which point said AGI robot started literally inundating them with information, paper on top of paper on top of paper of information. At that point it doesn't even matter if that information is correct or smart or whatever, because by that point the very amount of said information has changed everything into a futile endeavour.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad