> Regarding no. 2, I feel like this is an interesting write up:
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> https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340
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> It is about how naming a piece of software by its purpose, for example, naming a program "intelligence" or "understand" or "think" or "comprehend" causes people to project their understanding of the term onto the software, including the programmers who wrote it, and then people believe reality achieved the intent of the name rather than understanding clearly what the software actually does.
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> Wilhelmina Randtke
> Head of Libraries Technologies and Systems
> Zach S. Henderson Library
Fun, and thank you for bringing this to our attention, moreover I believe it is imporant to note the date of the write up, 1976. --ELM <emorgan_at_nd.edu>
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