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I can get half way to agreement with this abstract. One concrete example of algorithms run amok is music. Autotune and gridding externalize human creativity an

I can get half way to agreement with this abstract. One concrete example of algorithms run amok is music. Autotune and gridding externalize human creativity and crush it. Yes. But deciding that algorithms and the Western culture that begat them, as such, are the problem seems a tad bit peevish. One wonders at the direction of any of this thinking. It seems incapable of any positive outcome. The desire for 'positive' outcomes, itself, seems likely to come under attack for emoploying the English language, the Roman alphabet, and daring to insinuate there is anything amiss with what my strange new overl(ord)s are dictating.

simulo 6y ago
That is interesting. I did not read the article as a plea to avoid algorithms or 'Western culture' in general and interpreted it more as suggesting that ideas like "bias", "data" and "rationality" do not exist outside of context, politics and history (data cleaning is typically the phase where this is obvious to many researchers) and that this should be considered even though a perspective like X is the problem and Y is the solution might make an algorithm or its debiasing seem to be a generally positive outcome/solution.