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.
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.