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view the combo of big data and artificial intelligence ai with askance despite its many pros that are evident in our daily life big data can entice majority of humans the possessors of authentic intelligence to quickly jump to conclusions without so much of a thought it s ironic actually considering we have all the data we may also become entirely dependent on algorithms to make decisions for us at least this is my opinion now from this book i learn that this deadly combo can also cause imbalance between iq intelligence quotient and eq emotional quotient emotional intelligence leading to acts of oppression this issue was pointed out ever so simply by the author cathy o neil except the part where the author made a comparison with baseball to which as a malaysian can t quite relate to generalize malaysians don t play baseball o neil started the book by introducing the concept of mathematical model a familiar topic for me basically a mathematical model tries to express any complex phenomena like the economic system an office day to day operation the weather basically anything in mathematical terms mostly with the use of statistics and assumptions together with big data a mathematical model can provide you with outcomes predictions and explanations the assumptions are of course based on evidence with big data and ai a mathematical model can be built more complex than ever the issue arises when the assumptions were not changed despite evidence proving otherwise repeated use of the same model or the outcome prediction seemed illogical see now what happens when you abandon reason one may ask how come these cause oppression to illustrate the harm these pose allow me to present to you two case studies from this book case study 1 modelling teacher s competency a teacher had scored 6 out of 100 on a teaching evaluation test it s a ridiculous score because he had been teaching for 26 years we suspect that the score is ridiculous out of moral ethics eq and human reasoning iq i e we recognize the teacher s experience and contribution that he made in spreading knowledge to his students curiously the next year he scored 96 out of 100 despite maintaining his teaching methods upon investigation it was learned that in the year he got 6 out of 100 the teacher was teaching high achieving students and low achieving students you see it s difficult for low achieving students to score higher than their average marks as for high achieving students they had already scored high marks so they simply couldn t get higher marks therefore on the evaluation test the non increase in marks indicate that the teacher s teaching methods is abysmal on the other hand in the year that the teacher scored 96 out of 100 he was teaching middle achievers middle achievers can either score below or higher than their average marks that year most were able to obtain higher than average marks due to this increase in marks the evaluation test captured this as the teacher possessing excellent teaching methods what does this tells us the mathematical model was inaccurate in evaluating the teacher s ability to teach the model was practically useless allow me to emphasize here the inaccuracy of the model was detected by recognizing the value of the teacher and applying human reason this is something that ai and big data are incapable of case study 2 the united states us subprime mortgage crisis using algorithms ai and data on home mortgages big data a mathematical model was developed to segregate these mortgages into tranches these tranches are then packaged into securities before selling them off to investors the mathematical model had predicted that profit can be generated this way the thing is the outcome prediction was illogical because these mortgages are held by people who are not eligible for loan in the first place as such the securities will induce loss sooner or later to the investors see again why you need to apply human reason the mathematicians had somehow forgot about human beings from the model and only saw potential profit eq vs iq due to this many people defaulted on their loans and us suffered a recession there are many other case studies that o neil mentioned in her book o neil concluded that in order to avoid these acts of oppression the mathematical model of any phenomena must constantly be revised to include recent information the author also alluded to the importance of reason authentic intelligence and moral values before trusting the outcome prediction of a certain model only by holding on to these two traits reason and moral values we are able to execute justice in this lifetime source o neil c 2017 weapons of math destruction how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy great britain penguin random house uk posted by azniza ambrose at 8 56 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels a piece of my mind light reading morality reviews sunday march 29 2020 voltaire s b st rds the dictatorship of reason in the west by john ralston saul a review assalamualaikum and greetings dear bits and pieces readers i pray that everyone is safe i recently discovered that emojis can be inserted in blog posts these are only some discoveries that i made during this global pandemic i pray that everyone is safe and sound ameen alhamdulillah all praise to god after much brooding i finally understood the crux of this book it actually stems from these two schools of thoughts socrates s and plato s to put it simply socrates believes in the societal well being through the establishment of an ethical system that is built upon human reason 1 to arrive at that ethical system socrates would questioned and challenged people what true ethics actually is when the assumption of ethics that people held are challenged socrates had instilled doubt to which this book claims the westerners lack this lack of doubt and attention towards the societal well being are the main causes for the degradation of the western civilization on the other hand the philosophy expounded by plato attempts to answer what true ethics or basically the truth of everything is according to plato everything has an ideal or form in another world that is unchanging this is termed as the theory of forms 2 3 since there indeed exists a form or a true answer to the questions raised by socrates in his dialogues with the people little doubt is left so people just need to think critically and use all the five senses vision hearing smell taste touch what is the closest ideal version or the closest form of something in this world is using the five senses also means taking reality of this world into account as such this book argues that the west is obsessed with finding the forms of this world through efficiency and professional methodology employment of technocrats and views reflection arising from doubt as inefficient and the well being of society as secondary i will argue later why despite thought and the use of five senses well being of society is not primary as such the opening of this book argues that plato s philosophy has put less emphasize on humanism that his mentor socrates has preached i however humbly disagrees plato did say to take into account reality the reality is that majority of westerners value individual freedom more than societal well being in other words the west views individual freedom as the form of ethics and that translates as the reality of this world thus it is not that plato s philosophy is wrong but it is the people s thought process and the use of five senses that had led to the assumption that individual freedom is the form of ethics this belief is so ingrained in westerners so much so that there is no doubt about it yes despite this issue the conclusion to the problem is still lack of doubt similar to what saul 2013 have said in this book yet again i will also show one crucial point from the philosophy of plato that the book did not highlight saul 2013 had given countless real life examples where efficiency and professional methodology fails to solve a particular problem he asserts that the current system that we have politics education finance economy basically almost everything are in shambles the author pinpointed the source of the structural problems to the lack of humanism where its foundation was built excessively on the theory of forms the discouragement of doubt to permeate and the inconsequential of societal well being i feel that i need to tackle one particular system or two in particular education in particular social science in particular finance and economics these are two fields of study that i am familiar with but this requires god willing another blog post for it will be quite lengthy remember before i said that saul 2013 had missed one important point about plato s philosophy that point is the form exists in another world that is unchanging and constant so frankly there is no perfect solution for this world that world i e another world that plato expounded as to my belief should be the afterlife plato himself was not able to arrive at that conclusion because his philosophical thinking even socrates s does not take religion into consideration they did not acknowledge or was not able to arrive at the deduction that there exists a supreme being that is all knowledgeable by extension try reflecting on this phrase like most religions reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created saul 2013 had written this phrase in the opening vignette in part i argument of his book reading this statement in passing one would think that the author views religion in askance for religion is the one who had created these problems in the first place and without shame claims that it has the solutions yet notice that saul 2013 said most religions meaning one can also interpret that the author believes that there exists few religions that can provide answers to mitigate problems that these few religions did not create or perhaps saul 2013 is simply being neutral i would like to assume that he is in the former category in my humble opinion we should combine doubt the theory of forms and religion or ideas that you can get from it to arrive at a solution that balances between societal well being and individual well being when problems of each unit of society individual family is addressed consequently the problems of society as a whole will be addressed too in addition one cannot be complacent but must constantly evaluate from time to time stemming from the virtue of doubt whether the solution presented before is still practical for the present and future it is worth emphasizing that ideas from religion is quintessential as human has limit to his her thinking capacity thus it is only reasonable to deduce that there exists a supreme being that is all knowledgeable constant unchanging and never dies plato indirectly said so in his theory of forms before i end this post i would like to address the other crucial point that the book did not highlight or probably even consider our thought process should be guided by our heart sounds corny i know but ponder on this example you have only 10 and you come across a homeless mother with a child crying out of hunger nearby there s a food stall that sells food for exactly 10 you are hungry yourself but if your thought process is guided by your heart there is a very high possibility that you will buy the food for the child instead of you eating it yourself thus in religion one s thought process is guided by the heart or eye of the soul where in malay we termed it as matahati perhaps the deduction that individual freedom is the form of ethics comes from the disregarding of matahati it is important to be mentioned here that our matahati needs to be guided too and that guidance can only come from the all knowledgeable main source saul j r 2013 voltaire s b st rds the dictatorship of reason in the west new york simon schuster paperbacks posted by azniza ambrose at 2 09 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels a piece of my mind empathy light reading morality religion reviews spirituality tuesday january 28 2020 di tepi sungai dajlah kembara ke kota baghdad iraq by hamka assalamualaikum and greetings dear bits and pieces readers on rare occasion i would accidentally come across a book that is simultaneously unputdownable on point well mannered in its words and coincides with current world event this is that book translated in english on the banks of dajlah river travel to the city of baghdad iraq di tepi sungai dajlah narrates hamka s travelings in iraq with a backdrop of the region s history due to the fact that i had visited iran last year the never ending sunni shiite quandary and the assassination of iranian general suleimani i immediately felt an affinity to this book for this post allow me to concisely discuss the lessons that we can derive from the sunni shiite quandary within the context of this book let me first state one thing lest i ll be judge in the social media tribunal that i am a sunni and disagrees with the shiite doctrine yet i feel the pure hatred that half if not majority of malaysian sunnis have on shiite has caused a dangerous rift between muslims i am well aware that there are fatwas saying that shiite are not muslims but i will reserve my comments on this matter instead let me turn your attention to hamka s narration in pages 75 to 78 1 brief explanation in english is provided after maka bilamana kami telah masuk ke dalam perkarangan makam abbas itu mulailah mutawwif kami mengajarkann bacaan bacaan mula sekali mengucapkan salam pada rasulullah sesudah itu kepada ali bin abi talib sesudah itu kepada hasan dan husain barulah langsung kepada abbas ini bermacam macam pujian diberikan kepadanya dan kami turutkan kemudian mulailah bacaan berisi politik itu iaitu mengutuk kepada orang yang membunuhnya dan mengutuk kepada orang yang menyuruh bunuh tentu saja yazid oleh kami adalah kaum sunni dan pasal kutuk mengutuk itu tidak ada dalam ajaran kepercayaan kami maka di waktu bacaan sampai di sana kami berdiam diri diulang oleh mutawwif kami itu sampai dua kali kami tidak mahu menurutkan mutawwif kami kelihatan agak kurang gembiranya lalu di tengah jalan saya suruh mutawwif itu mendekat dan saya berkata kami ini bangsa indonesia mazhab kami ialah sunni syafie tetapi kami bukanlah membenci zuriat rasul keturunan rasul kami ziarah kemari dari tempat yang jauh karena kami pun cinta kepada husain sebab itu tuntunlah kami tunjukkan kepada kami tempat tempat yang penting tempat berziarah cuma satu permintaan kami janganlah dibawakan lafaz lafaz yang mengutuk kepada orang yang telah mati maafkan saya maafkan saya jawabnya dahulu imam syafie difitnahkan orang di hadapan raja harun al rashid dikatakan pembela syi ah sehingga nyaris berbahaya bagi jiwanya kataku pula oh tuan orang alim tuan banyak pengetahuan 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