Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor

Re:Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor by wiglaf1979 on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @09:24AM (#21258078)

Two books that dived well into this subject. Unlike this article they have a bit more meat to their research. I would recommend giving them a read before getting your pitchforks only due to this article. It's bad and needs to be fixed but a measured response instead of a purely reactionary response will just make things worse.

Weapons of Math Destruction https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186015-weapons-of-math...

Automating Inequality https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/34964830-automating-i...

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Re:Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor by bigwavedave on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @10:43AM (#21258935)

> a measured response instead of a purely reactionary response will just make things worse.

I'm not sure I understand, would you clarify this for me? It's been my experience that pure reaction is usually bad for discourse, so I'd like to know more.

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Re:Digital dystopia: how algorithms punish the poor by Pryde on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:27AM (#21259465)

Going from the context of the comment, I believe parent meant something along the lines of:

"we need a measured response instead of a purely reactionary response which will just make things work"

At least, that was my first impression, definitely could be interpreting the comment incorrectly.

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