Re:Machine learning is fundamentally conservative
by jevgeni on Saturday January 04, 2020 @06:32AM
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> Attaching emotional value to math is done incredibly frequently for all sorts of reasons.
Writing alarmist articles for clicks being one of those reasons.
> Attaching emotional value to technology is also fine.
Why??? Doing this with other things would be ridiculous. For example, instead of "The poor are disproportionately affected by climate change" a journalist could write "The climate hates the poor". Which subtly plays down the human cause in all of this.
> "Machine learning is fundamentally conservative" gets the point across better
It demonstrably doesn't. If you just read this thread, you'll find enough people discussing whether "conservative" has a political meaning or just a "deviation from the norm" meaning.
Writing alarmist articles for clicks being one of those reasons.
> Attaching emotional value to technology is also fine.
Why??? Doing this with other things would be ridiculous. For example, instead of "The poor are disproportionately affected by climate change" a journalist could write "The climate hates the poor". Which subtly plays down the human cause in all of this.
> "Machine learning is fundamentally conservative" gets the point across better
It demonstrably doesn't. If you just read this thread, you'll find enough people discussing whether "conservative" has a political meaning or just a "deviation from the norm" meaning.