We Need To Learn Our Patterns And Preserve Our Inefficiencies
There are all sorts of examples of ways we could make modern life more efficient. We could make it more efficient to figure out who to arrest, who gets a job, and who gets a home loan. But should we? Maybe instead we should encode some inefficiencies, some fundamental human values, that make the difference between our ancient, instinctive selves and our modern selves who are trying to create law and rationality and art and justice.
In order to be the best version of ourselves, we may need to push back against technology that is trying to make money off the people we never intended to be.
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The most obvious patterns in our behavior—patterns an algorithm will use to make decisions about what's best for us—are not the ones we want to perpetuate.
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