nothing is objective
The real world is all edge cases, all the time.
Jasmine • 🌻 42 notes on AI and work
It takes a deeply personal, in the bone, in the blood, in the spine recognition of the variables in motion. An abstracted version, an impersonal version, or seemingly "objective" or professional version will pop into modeling and mapping, and lose the necessary tangibility of the details – thus losing access to the realms of possibility to meet
... See moreWe've built an entire professional discipline around wilful blindness to the grief, desperation, and moral collapse that actually drives consumer behaviour.The industry calls this objectivity. I call it strategic sociopathy.
Strategic Sociopathy | Zoe Scaman | 19 comments
good numbers don't mean good impact. We can hit every target and still harm the system we operate in.
zoe scaman • The Work
Objectivity is a colonial demand that erases researchers from their own… | Sabrina Meherally | 10 comments
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The problem: When cultures come into contact, they experience conflicts over meanings. Other peoples do things differently; their beliefs seem obviously wrong to us. But they think our beliefs and practices are wrong. How do we know ours are right? The solution: The systematic mode tries to solve this problem by creating unarguable foundations, to
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