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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020

      And we've turned the computer into this Oracle at Delphi where we act like it's so smart it can create a realistic physics model based on shit from a police report we put into it to *prove* that a murder did or did not happen a certain way It's really disturbing

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    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020

      Like the vast majority of this Big Data stuff people try to sell you is a human analyst who already has their own opinion about a social phenomenon or whatever and then carefully looks for datasets and algorithms for interpreting them that sound like they match what they think

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020

      The idea that a computer is at all capable of answering a question like "How do Generation Z youths feel about Obama's legacy" is obscene, it's ridiculous But people act like doing a term search on Instagram comments or something can "approximate" this somehow

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    4. Hug Me (temporarily do not hug me)‏ @its_so_soft 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect

      Technophiles are trash. Computers are real cool *to a point* and anything after is a disgusting mockery of life itself

      2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @its_so_soft

      I just really want to die on the hill that computers even now are still only tools used by humans, "true AI" may exist someday but right now it's a distant dream, and everything in the world that's "computer-generated" is just human-generated with extra steps

      1 reply 9 retweets 44 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

      That means whenever people treat "the Internet" as this amorphous digital God out there that just gives you information out of nowhere for free it's one big lie There's always a human or group of humans who did it

      1 reply 7 retweets 32 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

      A lot of credit for good stuff gets lost because of this But, possibly far more importantly, a lot of blame for serious harm is also dodged this way

      2 replies 5 retweets 19 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

      This comes up right now in US constitutional law The Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights explicitly gives you the right to "confront the witnesses against you" in a trial The witness can't be a camera, or a sensor, or an algorithm, it has to be a person

      1 reply 5 retweets 22 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

      Stupid jokes people make about "calling a red light camera to the stand" aside, this is very relevant on a deep legal level The red light camera can't issue you a ticket A human being looked at the footage generated by the camera, interpreted it, and made the call

      1 reply 2 retweets 18 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

      "The algorithm" never does anything without a human being's consent and agency, even if the human being acts out of benign neglect and turns themselves into a rubber stamp

      1 reply 4 retweets 26 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

      The fact that in a criminal trial that human has to come forward and give an accounting of themselves is really fucking important, in ways the writers of the Bill of Rights didn't anticipate It sharply limits the power of the alliance between Big Tech and Law Enforcement

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

          (I say they didn't anticipate it, but they DID anticipate it, because the idea that tech changes the situation is FALSE An anonymous tip submitted by a written note isn't DIFFERENT from anonymously submitted surveillance footage, even if the latter looks more convincing)

          1 reply 3 retweets 20 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

          (The idea that it is is just them fucking with your head with the dazzling power of technology again All data -- a paper trail, a photo, audio, video -- means nothing without context Someone has to *take responsibility* for it -- "Where did this come from, what does it mean")

          1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
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        2. Charles‏ @Mr_Indigo 23 Jun 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

          I don't know about the US, but here in order to adduce evidence of computer records you also need an affidavit 》

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        3. Charles‏ @Mr_Indigo 23 Jun 2020
          Replying to @Mr_Indigo @arthur_affect @its_so_soft

          》from a human with expertise in how the computer works to testify that the output of the computer is valid.

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