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{{a|devil|}}:''Turkey'': “I have transformed myself into a data-driven business. All my data — and I've got reams of the stuff — tells me that every morning I shall be fed at 9 am | {{a|devil|}}:''Turkey'': “I have transformed myself into a data-driven business. All my data — and I've got reams of the stuff — tells me that every morning I shall be fed at 9 am on the dot. Aha! Here comes the farmer, right on time! I wonder if I’ll get a special treat because it is Christmas!” | ||
:''Charlotte (spinning web)'': Ummm | |||
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Firstly it expresses a preference for the aggregate and the mean over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to cater for the average. It is to prefer the mediocre for its weight of numbers over the genius and its isolated vision. As surely as the ugliest man killed God, so did data kill the superman. The ''will to power'' is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the ''will to entropy''. | Firstly it expresses a preference for the aggregate and the mean over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to cater for the average. It is to prefer the mediocre for its weight of numbers over the genius and its isolated vision. As surely as the ugliest man killed God, so did data kill the superman. The ''will to power'' is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the ''will to entropy''. | ||
Second in its reductionism, in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory:a transcendent ''truth''. | Second, in its [[reductionism]], in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory of everything: a transcendent ''truth''. This, in the [[JC]]’s view, is a profoundly illiberal idea: to be unable to accommodate pluralism is to ''deny'' of pluralism. | ||
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*[[There is no data from the future]] | *[[There is no data from the future]] | ||
*[[In God we trust, all others must bring data]] | *[[In God we trust, all others must bring data]] | ||
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- Turkey: “I have transformed myself into a data-driven business. All my data — and I've got reams of the stuff — tells me that every morning I shall be fed at 9 am on the dot. Aha! Here comes the farmer, right on time! I wonder if I’ll get a special treat because it is Christmas!”
- Charlotte (spinning web): Ummm
The obsession with big data has two implications:
Firstly it expresses a preference for the aggregate and the mean over the outlier, the individual, the unique or extraordinary. It is to cater for the average. It is to prefer the mediocre for its weight of numbers over the genius and its isolated vision. As surely as the ugliest man killed God, so did data kill the superman. The will to power is defeated by the million-strong dull blades of the will to entropy.
Second, in its reductionism, in its funnelling of a dispersed population into an essential homogeneity, it speaks to the underlying belief in a grand unifying theory of everything: a transcendent truth. This, in the JC’s view, is a profoundly illiberal idea: to be unable to accommodate pluralism is to deny of pluralism.