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Assassination is a Leaky Abstraction (coldwaters.substack.com)
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[–] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it is the right moment for everyone who builds systems of control to reflect. It’s the right moment to pierce those layers of abstraction that allow you to get through each day, and question why it’s so financially lucrative for the system you’re building to exist.

Because there is no abstraction as leaky as a man waiting outside your hotel at 6:45 in the morning with a gun and murderous intent

Amazingly written article, last line giving me chills

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This one also a bit chilling:

A data scientist can tell most of someone’s life story given their zip code, and we try not to think too hard about why that’s always the most predictive feature in the model.