Olivia Guest · Ολίβια ΓκεστMar 18

this is so perfect as a phrasing

"AI asks that you buy into the idea that more data means being closer to The Truth." @mel_hogan

I also explain this and take pains to really hammer home this is NOT EVEN TRUE in science, more data is NOT a better theory or account!

https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/

The Ends of AI

Sycophancy and psychosis

Disjunctions
Show threadEric Lawton

@olivia

Thinking back to the origin of the word "datum"—something given—we have to ask "by what?"

By reality, through senses, challenged by reason for error.
By reality, through instruments , via senses, challenged by reason for error.

Or by corporations that have been filling the media for centuries with advertising and marketing, artfully designed to exploit emotion to persuade in the interests of corporations?
Backed by decades of research into how to exploit the kludged architecture of our social and personal systems

@mel_hogan

Mar 18 at 10:06amWeb
Show threadAnthonyMar 18
@[email protected] I consulted my wife, who has a bit of expertise on such things, and she confirmed for me that in Latin "data" can also be taken in the sense of "gift". Things that have been given as a gift. Interesting to consider this sense of it in the context of how/where "big data" is amassed and what's done with it thereafter.

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