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That is a philosophically incoherent model of privacy. The singularity notwithstanding, computers cannot “comprehend” anything. Spam filtering and credit statem
by esoterica 7y ago
That is a philosophically incoherent model of privacy. The singularity notwithstanding, computers cannot “comprehend” anything. Spam filtering and credit statement parsing are no different. It’s all just ones and zeros being shuffled around.
- Retra 7y agoEverything is just bits of energy being shuffled around. There is no value in seeing computers as being unable to comprehend things, when comprehension is little more than maintaining an internal model of some processes. And computers do that.
- esoterica 7y agoPlaintext is also an internal model. The bare fact that they have your emails means they already have an “internal model” of your financial statements before any parsing is done.