# Telling the computer what to think about

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## Metadata
- Author: [[interconnected.org]]
- Full Title: Telling the computer what to think about
- Category: #articles
- URL: https://interconnected.org/home/2021/09/21/playhead

## Highlights
- So I want to generalise: every always-running algorithm should have the ability to be steered. Even, sometimes, when it doesn’t think it ought to run, to try harder, focus where it’s told to, execute the next lines of code anyway and to just do its best.