Post #921351
2026-03-23 06:01 UTC
A page in Vasily Grossman's novel "Life and Fate" (written in 1959):
"An electronic machine can carry out mathematical calculations, remember historical facts, play chess and translate books from one language to another. It is able to solve mathematical problems more quickly than man and its memory is faultless. Is there any limit to progress, to its ability to create machines in the image and likeness of man? It seems the answer is no."
Rest in the book and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/19595.Vasily_Grossman?page=3 (sorry)
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@maelle@mastodon.social 2026-03-23 06:02
"The machine will be able to recreate all of this! But the surface of the whole earth will be too small to accommodate this machine – this machine whose dimensions and weight will continually increase as it attempts to reproduce the peculiarities of mind and soul of an average, inconspicuous human being. Fascism annihilated tens of millions of people." Vasily Grossman, Life and Fate