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Re:Google Fights Back by esoterica on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @04:37PM (#19862664)
That is a philosophically incoherent model of privacy. The singularity notwithstanding, computers cannot “comprehend” anything. Spam filtering and credit statement parsing are no different. It’s all just ones and zeros being shuffled around.
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Re:Google Fights Back by Retra on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:31PM (#19863168)
Everything is just bits of energy being shuffled around. There is no value in seeing computers as being unable to comprehend things, when comprehension is little more than maintaining an internal model of some processes. And computers do that.
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Re:Google Fights Back by esoterica on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:59PM (#19863410)
Plaintext is also an internal model. The bare fact that they have your emails means they already have an “internal model” of your financial statements before any parsing is done.
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