Although I was not in class today, I have read my classmates’
posts on today’s discussion. It seems like the discussion revolved around human’s
unpredictability. I remember Dostoyevski speaking about this at one point and
how if an algorithm were to be developed to predict every decision a human
would and could possibly make that we would consciously and purposely go
against our initial instinct simply because we hate being predictable.
Personally, if a person ever tells me I am predictable I take offense. To me it
means that I am uninteresting, and thus boring. For this very reason I think naturally
all humans would act differently if a machine were predicting their every move,
simply to defy their own predictability and establish their humanity. We are
not machines and I think that our unpredictability is part of the reason why
despite our logical thinking, in the end we do remain human.
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