How do you feel about China making a decision to rank its citizens (using a non-open-source algorithm, natch) based on their social media and other internet profiles, and then disallow them from boarding trains + buses depending on what the algorithm spits out? Do you think that level of inference is a good thing? Would you feel differently if our current government proposed such a policy?
I'm not sure why would someone be disallowed boarding unless the algorithm puts this person as a harm to others. In which case hopefully its used to get them help.
If the government is doing this and then prohibiting tax payed services then I would expect it to be open sourced.
That being said i love your comment and is giving me a lot of food for thought.
But what about algorithms that can decide who deserves scholarships, federal wage, government help, etc. I would argue i would want it to be open sourced, but honestly this level of transparency can make the government make so much better decisions.
I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
We don't share a government, and you don't share a government with your great-grandchildren. A mass of data which could be used for something horrific almost certainly will be, given time and space to move.
Your level of trust is refreshing! I do not share it - not because I don't believe in the inherent goodness of people (I do!), but because I think that given access to great power, it's far too easy to wield it dangerously. Ultimately, giving away reams of data is giving power to those who own it.
How do you feel about China making a decision to rank its citizens (using a non-open-source algorithm, natch) based on their social media and other internet profiles, and then disallow them from boarding trains + buses depending on what the algorithm spits out? Do you think that level of inference is a good thing? Would you feel differently if our current government proposed such a policy?
Do you mean discrimination?
I'm not sure why would someone be disallowed boarding unless the algorithm puts this person as a harm to others. In which case hopefully its used to get them help.
If the government is doing this and then prohibiting tax payed services then I would expect it to be open sourced.
That being said i love your comment and is giving me a lot of food for thought.
But what about algorithms that can decide who deserves scholarships, federal wage, government help, etc. I would argue i would want it to be open sourced, but honestly this level of transparency can make the government make so much better decisions.
We don't share a government, and you don't share a government with your great-grandchildren. A mass of data which could be used for something horrific almost certainly will be, given time and space to move.
Your level of trust is refreshing! I do not share it - not because I don't believe in the inherent goodness of people (I do!), but because I think that given access to great power, it's far too easy to wield it dangerously. Ultimately, giving away reams of data is giving power to those who own it.
Your GitHub profile is giving a 404. Did you remove it or did you get banned?
Oh no banning on my end. I changed my username from mtbsickrider to enriquejosepadilla (thought it was time to grow up sadly :( )
That being said i thought github would do the redirect.