Hi everyone, we're going to finish The Eye of the Master this week.

This week, let's read Part II: The Information Age, and finish the book with the conclusion:

• Chapter 6: "The Self-Organisation of the Cybernetic Mind"
• Chapter 7: "The Automation of Pattern Recognition"
• Chapter 8: "Hayek and the Epistemology of Connectionism"
• Chapter 9: "The Invention of the Perceptron"
• Conclusion: "The Automation of General Intelligence"

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Ok, let's get back to the rest of the thing.

routine stuff

As a reminder, there are a few good ways to keep up with the reading group:

• newsletter: I send updates on Mondays and Fridays. In the Monday updates, I'll point to what to read; in the Friday updates, I'll send some reflections and an icebreaker question to think about, and a reminder of where & how to join the video chat.
• video chats: Fridays at 3p ET we'll have a video chat on jitsi where we talk about the week's readings.
• group chat: if you want to chat with friends, we have a few pretty active group chats: We're using Fluxer, which is similar to Discord or Slack. We also have a signal group chat (but keep in mind that Signal group chats can get overwhelming, especially at large scales like this).

next books

Our next book will be Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires by Paris Marx.

Hyperscale comes out next week, so I'm aiming for us to start as soon as possible. If you haven't ordered yet, you should really put in a pre-order ASAP.

reading plans

My reading plan for The Eye of the Master looks like this:

last thoughts

If you come across something you think we'd like to read, I'd love to hear about it; contact me.

Okay, that's it for now; see you Friday.