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Be Good-Argument-Driven, Not Data-Driven
- Tech culture has created a Wild West of real and simulated individuals, and infested its terrain with manias, biases, and irritability. I’m not suggesting that data dignity is a perfect or complete solution, or that it should replace all of the other ideas in play. But no idea is working well enough right now, despite an urgent need, and data digni... See more
from How to Fix Twitter—And All of Social Media by Jaron Lanier
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- Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our ethical lead. Sometimes that will mean putting fairness ahead of profit.
from Weapons of Math Destruction Quotes by Cathy O'Neil
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I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important. Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships.
from Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil by Arend van Beelen jr.
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