@vibratingdonkey: yeah I had the same concern, but really it just means that more NPCs see through whatever disguise you have. You can still largely wander around freely, as long as you keep an eye out
Read this article twice and still don't understand the leap from the bad matchmaking to Uber fucking over its employees.
The Overwatch algorithm is not some beautifully abstract system for pairing players together but a designed system with the biases of its creators driving what sort of outputs it strives for. That sounds sort of banal, but it gets lost a lot in discussions about algorithms and automation.
I wouldn't even necessarily make the Uber comparison before I'd make the comparison to the questionable uses of algorithms being deployed to evaluate if prisoners are fit for parole. Because the algorithms are fed on data sets and designed by people they still are at risk of producing biased results.
Basically: we need to stop acting as if, by transforming some decision making process into a data driven algorithm, we're somehow intrinsically making a better more "truthful" system
This is a really good piece that gives me a new perspective on this issue. With that said, I think its now definitely wrapped up in my feelings about simulations of intimacy as a whole, which is something I need to think a lot more about before talking about comfortably
"You don’t want to go into the insurance office where you work to find out your benefits have been cut, but hey, you have a new foosball table, believe me."
Love this line. I'm always suspicious of "fun workplaces" (and I'm eager to read Austin's thesis on gamification of work (that's it, right?) because I'm incredibly cynical about the concept)
Mistrust any attempt to distract laborers from asking "wait, why am I spending so much time here?"
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