{"id":529,"date":"2009-01-14T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/2009\/01\/14\/beware-the-algorithms\/"},"modified":"2009-01-14T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T15:34:40","slug":"beware-the-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Beware the algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Most things don&rsquo;t have to be perfect. In particular, things involving human interactions don&rsquo;t have to be perfect, because groups of humans have all these self-regulations built in. If you and I have an agreement and you screwed me over badly, you&rsquo;ve always got in the back of your mind the nagging worry that I&rsquo;m going to show up on your doorstep with a club and kill you. Because of that, people don&rsquo;t tend to screw each other too much, right? At least, they try not to. One danger, perhaps, of moving towards an algorithmically driven society is that the algorithms aren&rsquo;t scared of us showing up and beating them up. The algorithms will do whatever it is that they are designed to do. But mostly I&rsquo;m not too worried about that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/philosecurity.org\/2009\/01\/12\/interview-with-an-adware-author\">philosecurity &raquo; Blog Archive &raquo; Interview with an Adware Author<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most things don&rsquo;t have to be perfect. In particular, things involving human interactions don&rsquo;t have to be perfect, because groups of humans have all these self-regulations built in. If you and I have an agreement and you screwed me over badly, you&rsquo;ve always got in the back of your mind the nagging worry that I&rsquo;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[295],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamtheweather.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}