And things like data! Data is good to have pretty much no matter what, as long as it was taken ethically. Edit on this point: data makes everything way more efficient.
Disagree quite a lot. You should watch this talk on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk
TL;DR: Data has actually obscured progress in many industries, slowed it, or actively hindered work in a lot of ways. Data should be gathered as little as possible, not kept, and what is gathered should be STRICTLY what is needed and then dumped when it is not needed.
Data is great! It makes everything more efficient. Like manipulating you into buying shit you don't need! Or spying on you and your associates! Just make sure you collect that data ethically.
No one is againts 'data'. That's a dumb strawman argument. That's like being againts 'math'. We just hate the technocratic obsession with data and optimization, which alwa
ys ignores the human aspect (like work at an amazon warehouse being so optimized you don't have a second of rest which is so hard on people they end up burned out and depressed). How the fuck are we supposed to be like 'yay data' when the vast majority of it is being collected without our consent and used to manipulate us and control us. Oh and it's use is becoming more dangerous each year.
Right. The problem however right now is the intention to just collect and collect and collect. It is just a massive, dangerous, hazardous collection of completely unparseable data that, in many cases, attempts to parse it is actually slowing down work done conventionally. Many industries have slowed since the collection of data because of the incredible inefficiency that data has introduced. It has also introduced a lack of decision-making too, the inability to progress without make a data-based decision but not being able to efficiently parse the data in order to make that decision where, previously, people were making informed and education decisions on some element of best guess and generally speaking making the correct ones at a faster speed than the current data-driven approach.
The balance is all wrong and the mountains of data companies are just holding sitting around are dangerous.
Disagree quite a lot. You should watch this talk on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXLHM-1Psk
TL;DR: Data has actually obscured progress in many industries, slowed it, or actively hindered work in a lot of ways. Data should be gathered as little as possible, not kept, and what is gathered should be STRICTLY what is needed and then dumped when it is not needed.
Watch the talk.
Data is great! It makes everything more efficient. Like manipulating you into buying shit you don't need! Or spying on you and your associates! Just make sure you collect that data ethically.
No one is againts 'data'. That's a dumb strawman argument. That's like being againts 'math'. We just hate the technocratic obsession with data and optimization, which alwa ys ignores the human aspect (like work at an amazon warehouse being so optimized you don't have a second of rest which is so hard on people they end up burned out and depressed). How the fuck are we supposed to be like 'yay data' when the vast majority of it is being collected without our consent and used to manipulate us and control us. Oh and it's use is becoming more dangerous each year.
Right. The problem however right now is the intention to just collect and collect and collect. It is just a massive, dangerous, hazardous collection of completely unparseable data that, in many cases, attempts to parse it is actually slowing down work done conventionally. Many industries have slowed since the collection of data because of the incredible inefficiency that data has introduced. It has also introduced a lack of decision-making too, the inability to progress without make a data-based decision but not being able to efficiently parse the data in order to make that decision where, previously, people were making informed and education decisions on some element of best guess and generally speaking making the correct ones at a faster speed than the current data-driven approach.
The balance is all wrong and the mountains of data companies are just holding sitting around are dangerous.
Also: that talk was lovely.