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      <title><![CDATA[When and how did Dostoevsky predict algorithms?]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/b9fb1d43-7ce3-4d20-b43f-527137f8e95f_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The day all the laws of nature that guide behavior have been discovered, human beings will no longer be responsible for their actions. This is the fear that made a 19th-century classic like <a href="https://llegim.ara.cat/reportatges/muntanya-russa-anomenada-dostoievski_130_4177500.html" >Fyodor Dostoevsky </a>–an engineer by training– strongly criticized the rationalization in <em>Notes from Underground </em>(in Catalan, by Angle Editorial, translated by Miquel Cabal)<em>. </em>Published in 1864 in Russian, it is a novel about a frustrated and furious civil servant who dedicates himself to plotting impossible revenge and, at the same time, offers a harsh portrait of the challenges of the time and the future prospects of a society in crisis. Among the merits of Dostoevsky's book is a visionary note: the prediction of the algorithms that today decide what we read, what we listen to, or even with whom we should have sexual relations. <em>Notes from Underground</em>, Dostoevsky feared that all human actions would end up being mathematically computed: "Everything will be calculated and established with such precision that there will be no more action and adventure in the world."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordi Nopca]]></dc:creator>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Xavier Duran delves into the fruitful relationship between literature and science in an essay that reviews more than 3,000 years of history, with examples such as Homer, Mary Shelley, Víctor Català, Joan Margarit and Thomas Pynchon.]]></subtitle>
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