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The AlphaGo Documentary

Our narratives of Man versus Machine focus on Machine becoming Man, then surpassing Him. Man is something that shall be overcome. Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman–a rope over an abyss. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end. (Zarathustra, thus imaginarily reported by Friedrich…