“What we can learn from the errors of machine learning is that we do not have to live according to a set of rules that produces obviously unfair and undesirable outcomes like a bloated one percent, apartheid prisons, and the single worst person in the country as president. ”
“America exists to create wealth, and the system isn’t broken, it’s just obeying the rules to disaster; as a country, we’re more ourselves than ever.”
I never thought of imagining our liberal market economy as a form of AI, but of course it is – and everything good and bad that comes out of it can be both a bug and a feature. The problem of fixing the bugs in the face of active resistance of the buggy system is probably one of the hardest ones that we need to somehow solve.
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