This kind of old school engineer nerdiness was a lot more common 50s-80s then it is now, but I do recommend this quick read from 50 years ago for a funny and ironic look at why LLMs are not going to save the world.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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