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I’ll probably read this, but the cover is maddening. One can absolutely disagree with Turing—I do about some things. But the guy was absolutely not a dunce.

Devin Curry

@devinsanchezcurry.com

6 Sept

i'd guess from the subtitle that the duncethinker is supposed to be a turing machine, not turing himself. but yeah, silly cover

Corey J. Maley

@coreymaley.net

Yeah that could be. The robot looks like Turing, and “Turing’s Mistake” makes it ambiguous.

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Will Lowe

@conjugateprior.org

6 Sept

The thinker looks like Turing? That Rodin guy was really ahead of the game.

Corey J. Maley

@coreymaley.net

6 Sept

Obviously it’s an homage to the thinker. Could be that its resemblance to Turing is a coincidence. But the title is “Turing’s Mistake,” not some arbitrary robot thinker. OTOH the subtitle suggests it could be an unintelligent robot. It’s ambiguous.

Will Lowe

@conjugateprior.org

6 Sept

Can't see any resemblance, I'm afraid. Or, come to think of it, much ambiguity around whether the unintelligent robot of subtitle is supposed to the mistake that Turing made. @devinsanchezcurry.com seems on the money. Horrible graphics though. That rotated D 🫣 Paolozzi meets early Photoshop.

Will Lowe

@conjugateprior.org

6 Sept

And an instance of a fairly silly title style Turing's Mistake, Descartes' Error, Hume's Abject Failure, but how about Hegel's Howler, Bourdieu's Booboo, Fodor's Fuckup, or Dreyfus's Unquenchable Desire to Read Heidegger into Everything, etc.