> So far tech was doing what it was told, within certain boundaries. This is the kind of tech that will end up telling you what to do, either directly or through some intermediary
The financial crisis in 2008 was caused by investors who made risky bets based on models they built telling them that mortgage-backed securities were a safe investment. Our understanding of the world is guided by social science that seems to involve an incredible amount of p-hacking using statistics packages that make it easy to crunch through big datasets looking for something publication-worthy. It seems like tech already gives people plenty of tools to make poor decisions that hurt everybody.
Indeed it does, and we haven't got that under control yet, not by a very long distance. So I figure better take it easy before adding an even more powerful tool to the mix.
The financial crisis in 2008 was caused by investors who made risky bets based on models they built telling them that mortgage-backed securities were a safe investment. Our understanding of the world is guided by social science that seems to involve an incredible amount of p-hacking using statistics packages that make it easy to crunch through big datasets looking for something publication-worthy. It seems like tech already gives people plenty of tools to make poor decisions that hurt everybody.