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Our aspirations for our children reflect our own anxieties. It's the same with social media bans.

Our culture is pretty permissive of businesses inflicting indirect harms on adults. I think a lot of that goes back to lobbying from the cigarette and alcohol industries.

This is a very basic misunderstanding of machine learning. The goal is always to learn a representation that generalizes beyond the training set without overfitting. If you succeed in generalizing, you can do more than produce derivative work.

In a country like Denmark it's very common for a higher up to resign over something like this.

That's not (just) gatekeeping. People try to internalize a positive self image, from positive internal and external validation. Skills can also be a source of status or meaning (usefulness to others).

Taking that away compounds with the crisis of meaning we already have to make people feel more alienated than ever.

> "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."

> "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary."

> "The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."

> "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization."

> "The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning."

> "God was a dream of good government."

> "You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."

- Morpheus ( Deus Ex, 2000)

No. Look into the history of human rights. It's long been recognized that there need to be backstops against excesses of (democratic) government.

I'm guessing you work on some highly technical domain that receives highly structured data and is amenable to TDD.

Not all domains are like that. The majority of bugs I see are business/domain logic bugs. It's akin to having misunderstood or missed some aspect of the question, not causing data loss.

He wants to direct/align on strategy, not tactics. I'd say that's a good division of responsibility so I'm not sure I see your objection.

Why go for a configuration based format over a library though? Something like Streamlit or Dash offers more control and lends itself better to interactive exploration.

Being aware of Simpsons' paradox doesn't even help. There's no way of knowing what the right level of aggregation is without a theory.

In regulated industries and government they aren't going to be allowed to process your appeal with just AI, so there's a cost asymmetry there that favors the "ddos"ers.

It's not really about the dollar amount of fraud, but maintaining public support for benefits schemes. If people feel that benefits aren't going strictly to the intended recipients the sense of fairness that underlies the system is eroded.

There's also the issue that if you don't counter fraud it will accelerate as organized crime jumps on the bandwagon.

Right, just like companies don't use SAAS.

In reality, enterprises are happy to offload even risky tasks to others as long as they get some contractual guarantees about their data. Would they like more choice in who to buy from? Yes, but not enough to in-house such a specific discipline.

There are deïdentification firms that service primarily the medical industry. Over here they call them trusted third parties.