{"id":3385,"date":"2021-07-05T01:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3385"},"modified":"2021-05-24T07:23:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T12:23:17","slug":"the-age-of-algorithms-a-convenient-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2021\/07\/the-age-of-algorithms-a-convenient-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Algorithms (a convenient excuse)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sorry folks, &#8220;the algorithm found the answer that I used&#8221; is just another excuse. We choose what to do one way or another.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The computer made me do it!&#8221; Well, actually it was the algorithm underlying the software that runs on the computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hmmm. Who built the computer? Who created the algorithm? Who wrote the software?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh, that would be us. Someone else attempted to influence me. I chose to do what they wanted instead of thinking about what I would do and choose for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We build the machines. We create the algorithms. We put the algorithms in the machines. We look at the answers produced by our products. We decide what we will do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rats. &#8220;The computer made me do it&#8221; sounded like a convenient excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Sorry folks, &#8220;the algorithm found the answer that I used&#8221; is just another excuse. We choose what to do one way or another. &#8220;The computer made me do it!&#8221; Well, actually it was the algorithm underlying the software that runs on the computer. Hmmm. Who built the computer? Who created the algorithm? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394,51,269,12,70,292],"tags":[393,173,270,135,190,295],"class_list":["post-3385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternatives","category-choose","category-decide","category-design","category-excuses","category-tools","tag-alternatives","tag-choose","tag-decide","tag-design","tag-excuses","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3386,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3385\/revisions\/3386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}