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                                             January 20, 2022

                                                 BITWASTES

   David Auerbach, "Bitwise: A Life in Code" (2018), p. 242-243:

     "As a child, I had been drawn to computers because they were
     free of society's tortuous value systems.  Ironically, I now
     live in a world where computers are the thoughtless arbiters of
     those very same value systems.  They have come to speak our
     languages like idiots, replicating their stigmas and biases."


Auerbach goes on to declare that this
is a disease of "inexact ontologies"...
                                    
                                   This is essentially the central theme of
   But he also comments:           "Bitwise", he returns to it repeatedly:
                                   systems of categorization are inevitably
   "... one doe not eliminate      flawed, and systems of categorizing human
   bias from an ontology--         beings are always problematic.           
   one only copes with it"                                                  
                                                     BITWASTES_SOFTCATS
                                    
        "How?" would seem           
        to be the question.
                                      





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