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The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
by
Frank Pasquale
Dec. 31, 2017 - Dec. 31, 2017
(read/owned-ebooks/silicon-valley-etc)
Pasquale, F. (2015). The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information. Harvard University Press.
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bien pensant »
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desuetude »
(noun) discontinuance from use or exercise; disuse
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vitiate »
(verb) to make faulty or defective; impair / (ver…
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“Leaving it to the finance experts” is a recipe f…
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[...] Above all, what are these giant salaries an…
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It is not helpful to have politicians across the …
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The importance of credit reputation grows as publ…
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[...] Playing catch-up with the banks and the sco…
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Introduction—The Need to Know
ways of achieving opacity: “real” (technical) secrecy, legal (regulatory) secrecy, and obfuscation
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Toward an Intelligible Society
- cites the benefit of a UBI-type system (which I assume to be a stand-in for a better social safety net in general) which would reduce need to worry about copyright infringement. seems like he tones down his arg a bit to make it more palatable
- suggests public alternatives to: credit scores; Library of Congress should be scanning books; post office banking
- offers an unexpected but not altogether terrible hayekian critique of finance firms (basically it's akin to state central planning)
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Toward an Intelligible Society
- cites the benefit of a UBI-type system (which I assume to be a stand-in for a better social safety net in general) which would reduce need to worry about copyright infringement. seems like he tones down his arg a bit to make it more palatable
- suggests public alternatives to: credit scores; Library of Congress should be scanning books; post office banking
- offers an unexpected but not altogether terrible hayekian critique of finance firms (basically it's akin to state central planning)