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"Tuttle? His name is Buttle. There must be some mistake" "We don't make mistakes" The problem is when these aren't verified and no support for bad data decisi
by drawkbox 7y ago
"Tuttle? His name is Buttle. There must be some mistake"
"We don't make mistakes"
The problem is when these aren't verified and no support for bad data decisions.
When it is combined with authority and security it is even scarier in a dystopian way like Brazil or Idiocracy.
There will be mistakes, there needs to be a pathway for support and verifying this data. Almost like a right to trial but for data decisions made about you. And not the trial Not Sure got in Idiocracy.
We already have bad situations like this in credit tracking and identity theft, it gets worse when enforcement and oversight is favoring data over detective work.
Recourse on data decisions or algorithm decisions would be an excellent addition to the Bill of Rights in a much needed "Right to Data" amendment.
- m0xte 7y agoThis clip contains the actual “mistake”, ironically a bug: https://youtu.be/XGge4rj4v_Y https://youtu.be/XGge4rj4v_Y Edit: idiocracy is a great film. However watching these dystopian films as a software engineer is somewhat stressful :)
- drawkbox 7y agoYeah love Brazil and Terry Gilliam flicks. The Zero Theorem calls out the life of a developer pretty well and has some great satire and fantasy on our current technology and data driven world. Gilliam is strongly anti-authoritarian and comedic so it lends perfectly for satire of modern technology. Mike Judge being an engineer went on to make lots of great satiric and really truthful comedic views of technology in Idiocracy, Office Space and Silicon Valley. Gilliam and Judge have an excellent knack for nailing the biting areas of this and making fun of it fantastically with satire. All you can do is laugh knowing how scary it can get, knowing how little say engineers actually have to be ethical and how unethical and incorrect some of these systems pushed can be. We should take decisions by systems as we do foreign policy: "Trust, but verify". This is more difficult when verifying the decision process of an algorithm is unclear. At least giving someone a required speedy chance to deal with a data/system decision that affects their life.
- jacquesm 7y agoI don't think they're one bit funny but very scary and likely better at future prediction than most think tanks.
- lightedman 7y agoYou should think they're funny, as it is often hinted in history and archaic poetic prose that the humorless tend to be the ones to let the serious problems slip by with mere apathy despite knowing full-well about the problem. If you think those pieces not funny, there is a good chance you are the type of person prosed and mocked in historical plays. No actual offense meant, but this is literally (irony of that word) what you're displaying. If you don't mean to be displaying this, I sincerely apologize, but not knowing the humor and appreciating it likely means you aren't grasping the full seriousness of the situation. That's what the court jesters used to do - bring forth that awareness, when called for. They would jest EVERYONE, King included. They were almost as immortal as the King himself. Only a few were ever locked up and/or killed.
- ryacko 7y agoIf you can predict the future, you'd be rich.
- dredmorbius 7y agoI saw Brazil at uni shortly following its theatrical release. I saw it again about a year later. Which made me realise just how mind-warping the film was. Another three decades and some on, I realise, largely in a truthful way.