Why sacred texts, intelligence tests, and our newest machines all draw their power from seeming unchangeable — and why that is the very thing that hollows them out. The keyboard you are reading this on is badly designed, and everyone knows it. The QWERTY layout was arranged for the mechanical typewriters of the 1870s, and … Continue reading The Permanence Trap
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We Know What You Did During Lockdown. An FT Film Written by James Graham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WTpO9y2Dh4 Obvious, but worth saying again. Algorithms aren't moral agents, and hence, they are not in the position to make moral judgments.
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