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Why a computer or anyone behaving like one will never conquer the world. (We always have Calvinball.)
[Cross-posted at The Incidental Economist]
Austin Frakt is a health economist and an assistant professor at Boston University's School of Medicine and School of Public Health. He blogs at The Incidental Economist.
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