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Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{essay|work|jobsworthism|}}We complain a lot about the obsession the modern world has with technologising everything and reducing everything to data. It is historical, blind to the unfolding possibilities of an infinite universe, lazy, premium mediocre — it depends on scale to deliver ''average'' solutions which fit a majority of cases, and cares less about outliers and edge cases (sorry, all you people at the margins, there is just not enough to be made out o...") Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit |
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Automation removes the scope for ''discretion''. Discretion implies expertise, judgment, worldliness, all of which is expensive. The underlying theory of data modernism is [[Pareto triage]] — to separate the world, operations, the market into the codable, easy boring, lay-up 80 percent, that can be safely handed over to the chatbots — and the rich, complicated, risk 20 percent that requires special attention. | |||
There is a kind of averagarisnism at play here. If your enterprise is a production line, a kind of nomological machine you can control from beginning to end, but even then the production line requires adjustment and ongoing optimisation and expertise on the line is vital. | |||
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*[[Jobsworth’s charter]] | *[[Jobsworth’s charter]] | ||