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Lawrence Hrubes

Watch Out Workers, Algorithms Are Coming to Replace You - Maybe - The New York Times - 1 views

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technology ethics intelligence computers

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  • In Israel, for instance, we have one of the largest laboratories for A.I. surveillances in the world — it’s called the Occupied Territories. In fact, one of the reasons Israel is such a leader in A.I. surveillance is because of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Explain this a bit further.Part of why the occupation is so successful is because of A.I. surveillance technology and big data algorithms.
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Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science - The New York Times - 0 views

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    "Philosophers have traditionally recognized a division between facts and values - between, say, scientific knowledge on one hand and human judgments on the other. Latour believes that this is specious. Many of his books are attempts to illuminate, as he has written, "both the history of humans' involvement in the making of scientific facts and the sciences' involvement in the making of human history." In a formulation that was galling to both sociologists and scientists, he once argued that Louis Pasteur did not just, as is commonly accepted, discover microbes; rather, he collaborated with them."
Lawrence Hrubes

The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture | The New Yorker - 1 views

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arts perception race racism sculpture culture

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 27 Oct 18 - No Cached
  • if you were looking at an ancient Greek or Roman sculpture up close, some of the pigment “was easy to see, even with the naked eye.” Westerners had been engaged in an act of collective blindness. “It turns out that vision is heavily subjective,” he told me. “You need to transform your eye into an objective tool in order to overcome this powerful imprint”—a tendency to equate whiteness with beauty, taste, and classical ideals, and to see color as alien, sensual, and garish.
Lawrence Hrubes

Bruno Latour, the Post-Truth Philosopher, Mounts a Defense of Science - The New York Times - 0 views

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  • It had long been taken for granted, for example, that scientific facts and entities, like cells and quarks and prions, existed “out there” in the world before they were discovered by scientists. Latour turned this notion on its head. In a series of controversial books in the 1970s and 1980s, he argued that scientific facts should instead be seen as a product of scientific inquiry.
Lawrence Hrubes

Why Doctors Hate Their Computers | The New Yorker - 1 views

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medicine health technology doctors

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 07 Jan 19 - No Cached
  • Digitization promises to make medical care easier and more efficient. But are screens coming between doctors and patients?
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How Google Wiped a Neighborhood off the Map - OneZero - 2 views

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    ""Maps don't just show the world - they change the world," says the geographer Mark Graham. "They affect how we interact with the world and understand the world. In doing so, they shape the world itself." Residents couldn't prove it, exactly, but they believed the Google Maps error was both a symptom and cause of their displacement. "They took our name from us and no one knew about it," Hemphill-Nichols says. "Once you take our identity, you plan to take everything else.""
Lawrence Hrubes

Was E-mail a Mistake? | The New Yorker - 0 views

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technology communication assumptions computers business economics

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 11 Aug 19 - No Cached
  • There’s nothing intrinsically bad about e-mail as a tool. In situations where asynchronous communication is clearly preferable—broadcasting an announcement, say, or delivering a document—e-mails are superior to messengered printouts. The difficulties start when we try to undertake collaborative projects—planning events, developing strategies—asynchronously. In those cases, communication becomes drawn out, even interminable
Lawrence Hrubes

Should Patients Be Allowed to Choose - or Refuse - Doctors by Race or Gender? - The New... - 0 views

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ethics medicine racism gender

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 19 Aug 19 - No Cached
  • Everyone knows that doctors must not discriminate on the basis of gender, sexuality, race, religion or national origin when they select or treat patients: It’s an obligation they accepted when they entered the health care profession. (That doesn’t mean they have to take all comers; they can turn away patients for various other reasons.) But should patients be able to choose clinicians on the basis of such attributes? The answer is: It depends.
Lawrence Hrubes

Actually, Gender-Neutral Pronouns Can Change a Culture | WIRED - 1 views

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language linguistic determinism gender

shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 23 Aug 19 - No Cached
  • So this was the real test. Would native-speaker Swedes, seven years after getting a new pronoun plugged into their language, be more likely to assume this androgynous cartoon was a man? A woman? Either, or neither? Now that they had a word for it, a nonbinary option, would they think to use it?
Lawrence Hrubes

My Terezín Diary | The New Yorker - 0 views

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shared by Lawrence Hrubes on 16 Sep 19 - No Cached
  • What is most striking to me today about the diary I kept seventy-five years ago is what I left out.
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