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Later he worked with the mathematician and logician Hermann Weyl, who taught him what a theory was: “Theories permit consciousness to ‘jump over its own shadow,’ to leave behind the given, to represent the transcendent, yet, as is self-evident, only in symbols.”

The Information

James Gleick

Then Google made a fateful discovery: "data exhaust," or the byproduct of user digital behavior, was not waste to be expelled but gold to be mined. Web searches don't just generate results; they generate data: the way you type your query, the heatmap of your mouse, the pages you do or don't visit, and more. This exhaust was actually a "behavioral surplus" capable of bolstering Google's burgeoning advertising business by incorporating predictive modeling based on data its users generated.

AI, Slavery, Surveillance, and Capitalism

Substack

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