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Re:Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location o... by gue5t on Thursday February 25, 2016 @03:12PM (#11177420)
Exactly. Machine learning is an inequality-expanding lever just like many other forms of capital. This is one of the reasons Google et al are so dangerous.
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Re:Google Unveils Neural Network to Determine the Location o... by SquidLord on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:26PM (#11179635)
This has about as much reasonable intellectual bearing as suggesting that language is an inequality expanding lever just like many other forms of capital and one of the reasons Google and others are so dangerous.

This is just the Luddite fallacy repeated over and over. By this logic, we should never develop new informatic methodologies, we should never develop new forms of analysis, we should never develop new software – because of economies of scale exist.

I'll the state the obvious: that's stupid. There's no way to soften that blow.

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