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		shawnz on April 27, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recogn... Humans are machines, so why wouldn't that be necessarily true?

just_steve_h on April 27, 2021 | [–]

Machines are designed, constructed, and built by humans.

If humans are "machines," then who built us?

shawnz on April 27, 2021 | | [–]

I think it's debatable whether that's a necessary condition for something to be reasonably considered a machine.

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