Today, we truly have a global reservoir of belief into which all of our commitments are being painstakingly added: it’s called Big Data. You don’t even need to be an active netizen posting on Twitter or ranting on Facebook: more and more of what we do in the real world is being recorded and digitised, and from there algorithms can easily infer what we believe before we even express a view. In turn, this enormous pool of stored belief is used by algorithms to make decisions for and about us. And it’s the same reservoir that search engines tap into when we seek answers to our questions and acquire new beliefs. Add the wrong ingredients into the Big Data recipe, and what you’ll get is a potentially toxic output. If there was ever a time when critical thinking was a moral imperative, and credulity a calamitous sin, it is now.
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Cancel culture: the road to obscurantism - 0 views
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In her view, Ancient Greece's blind master storyteller, Homer, and his works, were guilty of "indulging and spreading sexism, racism, ableism, and Western-centrism". She came to the conclusion that canceling the classics seemed to be the most effective way to make sure that today's young generation could not, again in her view, be poisoned by the entirely fictional and mythical "sins" of Odysseus, Menelaus, and Priam.
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America once fought a war against poverty - now it wages a war on the poor - 0 views
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