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• Greg Tingey commented on Make Up a Guy
  SFR Not "Zum wechseln (in)" then? It was the psychological difference that I noticed first. Or maybe, simply using plain "werden" was easier?...
• Robert Prior commented on Make Up a Guy
  I was thinking about things like: what happens when the important decisions affecting many, many people's lives are made by an inflexible, broken algorithm? Getting back to the original blog post, this isn't science fiction but reality. Leaving aside the negative effects of algorithm-driven social media, things like the availability of credit, sentencing of criminals, hiring for jobs, and more are all driven by algorithms now. Even if a human is in the loop, the safe choice is always to go with what the algorithm recommends — because if they don't, they can be blamed for any negative outcomes (even...
• David L commented on Make Up a Guy
  Leaving aside the negative effects of algorithm-driven social media, things like the availability of credit, sentencing of criminals, hiring for jobs, and more are all driven by algorithms now. Even if a human is in the loop, the safe choice is always to go with what the algorithm recommends As someone who plays the credit card points / rewards game, algorithms are big in getting and keeping cards. I can apply for credit via a major bank web site at 2am and get approved or denied within 90 seconds. Less than 30 seconds most of the time. For a credit...
• David L commented on Make Up a Guy
  algorithm I think I tripped the SPAM filters with my last comment. It was about algorithms and how the CC industry works....
• RM commented on Make Up a Guy
  Chilling comment tossed off in this article John Carmack Interview in the context of this thread. "But if I just look at it and say, if 10 years from now, we have ‘universal remote employees’ that are artificial general intelligences, run on clouds, and people can just dial up and say, ‘I want five Franks today and 10 Amys, and we’re going to deploy them on these jobs,’ and you could just spin up like you can cloud-access computing resources, if you could cloud-access essentially artificial human resources for things like that—that’s the most prosaic, mundane, most banal use of...