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  • FUTURES

An update on the Copernican principle

There’s good news, and there’s …
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  1. J. W. Armstrong

    1. J. W. Armstrong works at a large laboratory in Southern California.

A glowing white planet sits within concentric rings within a 3D network of nodes

Illustration by Jacey

Despite what you may have read, machines have always had personalities. My first car, for instance, exemplified ‘lazy’. And all the computers I’ve ever used have had varying degrees of ‘bad attitude’.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01908-w

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