Hell yeah, my guy is in rare form. Ya love to see it.
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From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
Every time I try to use this term I have to explain what a centaur is.
I don't think most people can easily recall obscure mythological creatures.
It kind of feels like explaining the joke.
For real? I thought that centaurs weren't really that obscure.
Sure, they're more obscure than dragons and dwarves, but they still appear in Harry Potter, so at least millenials should be familiar.
And the mythological creature isn't really the point, IMHO. I like the metaphor because it helps to distinguish helpful automation (human-directed interaction - centaur) from unhelpful automation (machine-directed interaction - reverse centaur).
Tho I will add that, there are pretty cool obscure-mythological-creatures we can use.
Reverse Deccan Buraq. The entire body is made up of humans living together to form a coherent, functional system, but the head is that of a violent animal.
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It can only go to hell. Allegory for capitalism.
He is really good as expressing the problems we are all seeing. Reverse Centaur is really poignant
Bit of a tangent, but I think they aibro on about the radiology example purely because he has just gone through cancer, which feels pretty gross, even if it’s devil’s advocate
Who does what about the radiology example?
Centaur is also underused. Not a lot of centaurs around.
Doctorow is stuck in his own techno world, and it's difficult to relate to the masses. I've been "in IT" for a long time too and have never heard the "centaur metaphor" before.
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