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All data is from the past, as Roger Martin has it. | All data is from the past, as Roger Martin has it. | ||
===It is bad=== | ===It is bad=== | ||
Not only (per our careful argument at [[signal-to-noise-ratio]]) is the overall quantity of data we have skewed in time and practically nil in quantity, the quality data in of our tawdry collection is poor. And not just in its profusion of cat videos and hot takes on Twitter, either. For, as the evolutionary record, it contains all the errors and the one successful trial; all the abandoned drafts, all the false starts, all the typos, [[split infinitive]]s, tendentious arguments, feeble caveats and needless [[for the avoidance of doubt|avoidances of doubt]]. The data we have, that is, even on our own rationalised terms, mainly noise. | |||
===It is illiberal=== | ===It is illiberal=== | ||
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. | 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. | ||