7. High Tech Modernism, can apply much more individualized classifications, and change them on the fly (although as @kjhealy has pointed out to us, the old patterns of class and stratification keep on re-emerging in the new more finally tuned images of the world).
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8. And it doesn't need wide boulevards to make people visible. Instead, it can capture their behavior from sites like this one, and the ever improving sensors that we all carry about in our pockets, and use to check the weather, call our loved ones, arrange meetings and so on.
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9. Perhaps most politically important - the classifications imposed on us and our behavior by machine learning are far less _visible_ than their High Modernist predecessors. We are invisibly shunted into categories that affect our credit, the choices that are offered to us etc.
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10. In ways that are woven into our everyday lives, and far harder to identify and mobilize against (when they discriminate against us) than their cruder 19th and 20th century equivalents. There _are_ politics around and against High Tech Modernism - but they are harder.
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11. Thinking about machine learning in this way helps perhaps to change some of the technical debates about bias. Bias often can't be readily fixed through better training data, since it is woven into the nearly invisible feedback loop between the category and the categorized.
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12. As politics becomes sidelined, people don't have the opportunity to challenge the ways in which they are categorized. That is a problem that avoids simple technical solutions and introduces new and more difficult questions - how do we bring politics back in?
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13. Equally, the distinction between High Modernism (which was horrible in its own special ways) and High Tech Modernism potentially allows us to identify what is happening, without romanticizing the recent past.
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14. For example, a lot of the fights over Silicon Valley can be understood as a bitter dispute between two rival elites - one, the professional classes of High Modernism, whose power is waning, and the other, a new priesthood, whose might is waxing.
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My limited meme-power allows me to identify the movie but not the snark that I’m hoping and presuming it’s larded with.
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The featureless snarkophagus lies before you, but refuses to open and yield its secrets
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No-one else can gain entry, says the keeper of the snarkophagus, since this door was assigned only to you.
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