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Camden, New Jersey, whose deep ruination, from this height and distance, gave the impression of a kitchen floor with the linoleum scraped off.
The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen
There’s a practical limit to how much data we can collect; there is the possibility that exceeding the limit may not be enough; and there is data we may never think to collect or be able to (such as data on the cumulative advantages or disadvantages of granting bail). Since none of this deters companies “from selling AI for making consequential decisions about people by predicting their future,” the authors insist we must resist “the AI snake oil that’s already in wide use today” instead of pining for better predictive AI technology.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
Seneca’s point is more subtle. It is no less unreasonable to accept something as necessary when it isn’t as to rebel against something when it is. We can as easily go astray by accepting the unnecessary and denying the possible, as by denying the necessary and wishing for the impossible. It is for reason to make the distinction.
The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
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