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I knew there was one rule that held fast across the universe: if you wanted to get someone on your side what you really had to do was relieve their pain.
As something of a Marxist, I believe that we should always look through *relations of exchange* to *relations of production.*
I want to propose today that we rethink a little bit about the role of contemporary math -- not just financial math, but math in general. That its transition from being something that we extract and derive from the world to something that actually starts to shape it -- the world around us and the world inside us. And it's specifically algorithms, which are basically the math that computers use to decide stuff. They acquire the sensibility of truth because they repeat over and over again, and they ossify and calcify, and they become real.
How Algorithms Shape Our World
Kevin Slavin
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