{"id":925662,"date":"2023-11-14T19:13:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=925662"},"modified":"2023-11-24T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T18:13:17","slug":"nuclear-bombs-artificial-intelligence-and-the-madness-of-reason-in-the-maniac-benjamin-labatut-examines-the-troubling-dawn-of-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/science\/nuclear-bombs-artificial-intelligence-and-the-madness-of-reason-in-the-maniac-benjamin-labatut-examines-the-troubling-dawn-of-the-digital-age","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear bombs, artificial intelligence and the madness of reason &#8211; in The Maniac, Benjamin Labatut examines the troubling dawn of the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over 100 years ago, the great German sociologist Max Weber warned that the growth of modern science would result in the &#8220;disenchantment&#8221; of the world. He meant a world without mystery, without the unknown or the transcendent, and therefore without meaning &#8211; a world governed by the grim law of what he called &#8220;instrumental rationality&#8221;, where everything is a means to an end and nothing an end in itself. Weber feared that science and technology might reduce human existence to cold calculation and utilitarian practicality, and destroy any pursuits that do not have immediate, measurable, pragmatic effects. Review: The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over 100 years ago, the great German sociologist Max Weber warned that the growth of modern science would result in the &#8220;disenchantment&#8221; of the world. He meant a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}