Reading up on Alan Turing

Cantor’s ordinals show that any finite coin start in the devil’s bag game must eventually run out, as each move lowers an associated ordinal, ensuring termination.

The archive entry describes Alan Turing's 1951 lecture 'Intelligent machinery, a heretical theory,' noting two manuscript versions held in the Turing Digital Archive.

Jaron Lanier argues that the concept of intelligent agents is harmful because it causes people to redefine themselves as lesser beings, ceding autonomy to software.