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Tuesday, November 02, 2010
Computers taking over… hide your children
Really, in this day and age, someone at Forbes was paid to write this:
Are we really going to succumb to our Orwellian compulsions and let computers decide who the best players and teams are? I should hope not.
That was in response to the seemingly ridiculous result of some non-winner being ranked the #1 golfer in the world. This is not a computer problem. This is a user requirements problem. It’s not the dumb computer that decided anything. It’s a committee of human beings that decided on the point system. The only thing the computer did is process the data, just as sure as the computer processed the writer’s words so he could type the text I quoted above. Are we going to blame computers for everything? If the writer can take responsibility for writing the quoted part above, then the PGA committee will take responsibility for devising the scoring system it has in place.
This is 2010 already. Really? I have to be reading this stuff and countering it? Really?