Of course, and I don't seriously claim that they are rubbish. They are useful and I admire some of the people who have developed them. But I think we need to q

Of course, and I don't seriously claim that they are rubbish. They are useful and I admire some of the people who have developed them. But I think we need to question why data seems to have this outsized value compared to algorithms. I don't think it is some sort of information theoretical invariant. It's a relationship between the specific algorithms and the specific sort of data we have.