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I'm a librarian who loves anime, manga, and reading a wide variety of genres.
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How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Vol. 1
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103/374 pages
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
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424/470 minutes
Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story
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184/184 pages
Parental Guidance
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40 %
An Offer From a Gentleman
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102/358 pages
The Twisted Ones
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385/385 pages
Educated
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315/730 minutes
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Vol. 2
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24/171 pages
Graphic Medicine Manifesto
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26/172 pages
Ao Oni: Mutation
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30/152 pages
Reading progress update: I've listened 458 out of 555 minutes.
It's fascinating hearing about Turing's attempts to advocate for giving machines something similar to the amount of leeway we give humans. For example, we don't expect humans to know how to do things without first getting some kind of training or instruction, and we don't expect humans to always get everything right.
But yeah, now the author has gotten to Turing's ideas on how a machine might be taught, and it's old fashioned child rearing strategies, with some form of punishment being viewed as better and more effective at inspiring change and growth in the machine than praise. As far as this part goes, I prefer Ted Chiang's The Lifecycle of Software Objects.
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