I agree, it's not like we need computers to make it worse.. but they sure can help. Humans can be pretty callous as is, and we are awesome at rationalizations w

I agree, it's not like we need computers to make it worse.. but they sure can help. Humans can be pretty callous as is, and we are awesome at rationalizations where we can't muster the required callousness; but in the long run, even the worst bureaucrat in the history of the world will be a fountain of compassion and insight compared to the worst computer algorithm, of that I have no doubt. > These definitions coincide with the terms which, since Greek antiquity, have been used to define the forms of government as the rule of man over man—of one or the few in monarchy and oligarchy, of the best or the many in aristocracy and democracy, to which today we ought to add the latest and perhaps most formidable form of such dominion, bureaucracy, or the rule by an intricate system of bureaux in which no men, neither one nor the best, neither the few nor the many, can be held responsible, and which could be properly called the rule by Nobody. Indeed, if we identify tyranny as the government that is not held to give account of itself, rule by Nobody is clearly the most tyrannical of all, since there is no one left who could even be asked to answer for what is being done. It is this state of affairs which is among the most potent causes for the current world-wide rebellious unrest. -- Hannah Arendt, "On Violence" (1970)