Rising Automation Turns Our Understanding of the World Into Magic Thinking

deepfates argues that as more of the world gets automated into 'darkness,' our relationship with it increasingly resembles magical thinking, where inputs affect outputs but internal details no longer matter. We end up understanding systems like AI through names and stories rather than mechanisms.

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