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Scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own success. When a machine runs efficiently, one need only to focus on its inputs and ouputs …

See also: paperclip optimizer Scientific and technical work is made invisible by its own success. When a machine runs efficiently, one need only to focus on its inputs and outputs and not on its internal complexity. Thus, paradoxically, the more science and technology succeed, the more opaque and obscure they become If we start to disect the black box and understand that it is made by people substitutes their actions is a permanent delegate of the work shapes human action by prescribing what sorts of people can pass through it Then this is called “opening the black box” or…

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