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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/14/technology/jeff-hawkins-brain-research.html

Intelligent programmers write responsive code.
It has a limited ability to learn.
Programmers are not infinitely wise.

"Idiot proof machines are impossible.
        Idiots are too smart."

People do things that the maddest programmers do not anticipate.
         " First turn on your machine."
                          "It needs sex?"

    I do not want a machine to love me or to know who to call when I am tired, depressed or hungry. 
A machine is not curious about anything.  It is, at best, analytical.

A machine can never care.

Jeff Hawkins is looking at the hardware.  People build models of situations.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/opinion/trump-climate-change-deniers-republican.html

Paul Krugman is a careful observer.