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Predictive AI imposes fundamental limits on predictive systems. Automated systems cannot account for the impact of automated decisions; are trained on preexisting datasets generated by one population but applied to different ones; and, when kept low-cost (human-free), often preserve or intensify discrimination—encouraging people to game the supposedly fair, objective, and accurate system.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
Translation: When you are young, you have raw smarts; when you are old, you have wisdom. When you are young, you can generate lots of facts; when you are old, you know what they mean and how to use them.
From Strength to Strength
Brooks, Arthur C.
Let your impossible standards crash to the ground. Then pick a few meaningful tasks from the rubble and get started on them today.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
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