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Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:36PM (#23468115)
Technology is never neutral. It always reflects the biases of its creators, and of the social environment in which it's developed. Those biases may directly contradict the goals you expressed. For example, if self-driving car technology has racist biases, a "good" person may still end up on the inside of a car that chooses an escape route with a pedestrian of color in its path over an escape route which has no pedestrians.

Neutrality is a myth. Actively promoting values and challenging biases is preferable. You don't have to agree with the values promoted, and you're welcome to choose not to use the technology.

Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by armatav on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:42PM (#23468183)
Your Siri unit should not be altering your commands.

It is that simple.

Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:44PM (#23468202)
It does all the time. It has since before it was acquired by Apple.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by armatav on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:47PM (#23468233)
This is a deliberate blacklisting of a command based on a political agenda.

Technology is built in service to mankind.

Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:51PM (#23468276)
"Black lives matter" is not a political agenda, it is explicitly a service to mankind.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by Amezarak on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:11PM (#23468504)
This is a fantastic demonstration of what Zizek means when he talks about modern ideology.

> For subjects to believe in an ideology, it must have been presented to them, and been accepted, as non-ideological indeed, as True and Right, and what anyone sensible would believe. As we shall see in 2e, Žižek is alert to the realist insight that there is no more effective political gesture than to declare some contestable matter above political contestation. Just as the third way is said to be post-ideological or national security is claimed to be extra-political, so Žižek argues that ideologies are always presented by their proponents as being discourses about Things too sacred to profane by politics. Hence, Žižek’s bold opening in The Sublime Object of Ideology is to claim that today ideology has not so much disappeared from the political landscape as come into its own. It is exactly because of this success, Žižek argues, that ideology has also been able to be dismissed in accepted political and theoretical opinion.

https://www.iep.utm.edu/zizek/#Ha

I think it's actually fairly concerning that the fault lines between ideologies seems to be deepening - people seemed more and more convinced that their positions are absolutely not even contestable. I'm not sure where there is room for civil political discourse and positive change in this kind of scenario.

Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by armatav on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:06PM (#23469085)
Yep - exactly right, I shouldn’t have responded to it - I knew it was coming from the top level post.

That thought process is absolutely poisonous for technology - it’s like a viral brain-lock.

Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by armatav on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:57PM (#23468345)
Machines should not alter user input.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:11PM (#23468508)
That's literally the definition of machines.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by armatav on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:57PM (#23469010)
Maybe when you code.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @02:12PM (#23469133)
It is the mechanical definition of a machine. A machine inherently alters the action performed by the human operating it.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by mc32 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:44PM (#23468205)
Do you agree with the Clinton admin restrictions against exporting strong encryption? You support NSA backdoors so we can catch the bad guys too?

I mean tech is never neutral right?

Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @12:52PM (#23468290)
Huh? I explicitly stated that neutrality is a myth, why would you assume that I'm neutral on which values are promoted? No, I do not support either of those.
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by mc32 on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:22PM (#23468637)
Right, so you would be for our ability to break encryption the foreign baddies might use? You never know what baddie might want to use strong encryption...
Re:Saying “All Lives Matter” to Siri Now Redirects You to Bl... by eyelidlessness on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @01:37PM (#23468806)
I have NO IDEA how you got that from anything I said.