Thanks, I thought your points were good too. I think machine learning in combination with human oversight is the least bad. Machines can help eliminate human

Thanks, I thought your points were good too. I think machine learning in combination with human oversight is the least bad. Machines can help eliminate human bias, and humans can pick up on things that the machines missed. I wouldn't trust a machine to lend out my money, but I would trust it to give me a lot of data about someone and make recommendations on that basis. When you search Google, you get a mostly impartial set of results, but then you need to choose the most relevant from the top 10. Without Google, you'd visit far fewer websites based only on your accumulated experience. Without a human to filter through the top 10, you'd have to systematically read webpages in order until you found what you wanted. Maybe the example is a bit stretched, but machines and humans cooperating seems to work well, even right on the HN front page, or in the browser spellchecker as I type this message (apparently HN is not a word).