Claire Cain Miller on the Robot Menace
11th July 2015
Claire Cain Miller is a representative promoter/consumer of the conventional wisdom (e.g., she pushed Ellen Pao). So, it’s worth noting how she begins her piece by assuming that human frailty and evil must be behind the disparate outcomes of algorithms. Progressives assume they are on the side of Science and Rationality, which have proven that all people are identical, so when robots discover differences, it must be due to Wreckers.
Progressives are at heart conspiracy theorists. They believe in data that agrees with their preconceived notions; when it doesn’t, it’s because of the machinations of Emmanuel Goldstein evil people, especially right-wing evil people (than which no people are, or can be, more evil).