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		chongli 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across po... No, “the purpose of a system is what it does” implies that the original intent of the creators of a system was for it to become corrupted.

arrowsmith 4 months ago [–]

That's one way to read the literal meaning of the words, but it's not what the phrase means as originally intended.

chongli 4 months ago | [–]

Right, but then we apply the phrase to itself and this is what we get!

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