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Yeah 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 t

Yeah 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 ago
I don't think they're one bit funny but very scary and likely better at future prediction than most think tanks.
- lightedman 7y ago
  You 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 ago
  If you can predict the future, you'd be rich.

jacquesm 7y ago

I don't think they're one bit funny but very scary and likely better at future prediction than most think tanks.

lightedman 7y ago
You 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 ago
If you can predict the future, you'd be rich.