It’s just a system. It is independent of ideas of right and wrong. Data goes in and it gets transformed in the process that awaits it. The output is a direct result of the process.
Category: Words Poorly Used
Words Poorly Used #108 — Foreseen
Diane Feinstein, a U. S. Senator (D, CA) wants to ban workarounds from previous bans. She seeks to address “unforeseen” consequences.
Words Poorly Used #107 — Humility
We often use humility to mean un-self-centered and objective, not acting on an assumption of superiority. Most dictionaries, however, say that the word comes from the Latin word for low.
Words Poorly Used #106 — Consensus
It rears its ugly head again. I’m talking about the populist tendency to subsume the existence of substantial discord by uttering a stupid statement containing the word, “consensus,” or its equivalent.
Words Poorly Used #105 — Insurance
A substantial part of my jagged career was spent in the vineyards of the property and casualty insurance business. I learned that, in its principled form, true insurance was only possible where every unit was equally exposed to a loss.
Words Poorly Used, Another Devil’s Dictionary #3
Clarity — in politics, that which is to be avoided at all costs. Unnecessary — anything spouted by a former political minion who has been handed the pink slip.
Words Poorly Used #104 — Clarity
POTUS keeps having a legislative and executive agenda, but he appears to fear any kind of specificity regarding details. Is this so that he can claim that any misshapen mess represents a success of deal-making? The word misused in this case is “clarity.”
Words Poorly Used #103 — Charity
It is frustrating trying to assist charities. Like all organizations, they have pockets of management dysfunction, pockets of people problems. This is also the reason why big government bureaucracies have so many fail points, many egregious fail points.
Words Poorly Used #102 — AI
Putin and Musk are holding forth on the future of AI. They, and most the rest of us, act like AI is a stage play that is evolving toward a tightly plotted ending. Observations: AI is in the Stone Age. We’ve been wrestling with the mouse for over 3 decades. That is glacial change.
Words Poorly Used #101 — Criteria
The world underestimated Hurricane Harvey because the presumptive category-system of predicting a storm’s impact measured the wrong things, and/or not enough of the right things.