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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (media.piefed.social)
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

[–] funkajunk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Try to stop me.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

That's alright, so far they haven't even come close