HOW FOUL PLAY SCREEN OFF OUR EYES AND INTELLIGENCE ( as from my friend)
Technology (science also sir KR) is full of narratives, but one of the
loudest is around something called ‘data’ (IN SCIENCE THEORY AND FORMULA
CLOSE TO TRUTH ONLY KR). AI is the future, and it’s all about data, and
data is the future, and we should own it and maybe be paid for it, and
countries need data strategies and data sovereignty. Data is the new oil!
(KR Oil is poured from time immemorial. Anything twisting the arm of the
truth is oil only to lubricate to attain the power or hold.)
This is mostly nonsense. There is no such thing as ‘data’, it isn’t worth
anything, and it doesn’t really belong to you anyway. (KR INDIAN VEDIC
PHILOSOPHY CONVENIENTLY STOLEN AND USED WHERE THE NEED ARISE; BUT NEVER
WHERE THE BRAINWASHING INSERTED FROM GREECE DOWN TO ENGLAND!!)
Most obviously, ‘data’ is not one thing, but innumerable different
collections of information, {KR: YES DATA MEANS INFORMATION; THAT IS ANY
TOM DICK OR HARRY} reach of them specific to a particular application, that
aren’t interchangeable. Siemens has wind turbine telemetry and Transport
for London has ticket swipes, and you can’t use the turbine telemetry to
plan a new bus route. If you gave both sets of data to Google or Tencent,
that wouldn’t help them build a better image recognition system. {KR: The
entire space is spread with the data of all the species rendered good or
bad and still there is a vast space; that means what’s in the air is being
heard, by the capable, we call as Rishis. Some say ASAREERI. NOT FROM THE
SHAREERA @BODY BUT FROM THE SPACE. If there is anyone who has that
qualification to hear and perceive, may write the true history from AUM the
big bang)
This might seem trivial, but it points to the uselessness of very common
assertions, especially from people outside tech, on the lines of ’China has
more data’ or ‘America will have more data’ - more of *what* data? Meituan
delivers 50m restaurant orders a day, and that lets it build a more
efficient routing algorithm, but you can’t use that for a missile guidance
system. You might not even be able to use it to build restaurant delivery
in London. ‘Data’ does not exist as one, single, unified thing, where you
can add every row and table of every different kind to one giant pool and
get more and more insight. Creating a ‘national data strategy’ is like
demanding a ‘national spreadsheet strategy’ or ‘national SQL strategy’. {KR:
absolutely but words went out even from those restaurants so they also
merit a data sir; and there is NOTHING CALLED NOTHING; AND SCIENCE DO ADMIT
IT; FROM THE ASAT SAT CANNOT BE BORN VEDAS SAY}
Of course, when people talk about ‘data’ they mostly really mean *your*
data - your personal information and the things that you do on the
internet, some of which is sifted, aggregated and deployed by technology
companies. We want more privacy controls, but we also think we should have
ownership of that data, wherever it is. {KR: I cannot understand; only
data gatherer also places his personal information only; where it is needed
for the public, there is no more freedom to secure; until then it is; no
part of lady is open to public; until she has to deliver a baby which is
for the society, public; thus data assume moral significance)
The trouble is, most of the meaning and hence the value in most of ‘your’
data is not in you but in all of the intersections with other people. What
you post on Instagram means very little: the signal is in who liked your
posts and what else they liked, in what you liked and who else liked it,
and in who follows you, who else they follow and who follows them, and
so-on outwards in a mesh of interactions between a billion people. If I
like your picture, that is not your ‘my’ data or ‘your’ data alone, and
it’s not worth much without the context of all the other likes and follows.
You can't take that with you, because it’s a lot of other people’s data
(and privacy!) as well, and even if you did you probably couldn’t plug it
into TikTok, because TikTok has a different mesh and the users don’t
overlap.
That is, for many of these systems the value isn't in the ‘data’ at all but
in the flow of activity around it - the meaning is not in the picture or
video you post but in how the network reacts to it, and how the products
create and capture that reaction. You could see Instagram, TikTok or
PageRank as vast mechanical Turks - we do not (yet) have AI that can
understand what every page, picture or video are in themselves, and so we
need humans - all of us - in the loop somewhere, at the right point of
leverage, liking, linking, clicking and watching (and, of course,
creating). These are systems, not data, and the value is in the flow.
All of this prompted Tim O'Reilly to say that ‘data isn't oil - it's sand
<https://www.theinformation.com/articles/data-is-the-new-sand>’ - data is
valuable only in the aggregate of millions. Indeed, this can be true even
on a simple cash flow basis
This also applies even for ‘personal’ data where you *can* meaningfully say
that it’s ‘yours’. Your electricity usage is not about other people, but
it’s not valuable by itself, only in the aggregate of all domestic
electricity usage in south London or Brooklyn. And DeepMind’s researchers
might be able to uncover some new and clinically important correlation from
a million chest x-rays - but yours, by itself, doesn’t get them anything,
and they didn’t feed those x-rays into AlphaGo. Again, data isn’t one
thing.
A VERSION OF THIS ESSAY APPEARED IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES
<https://www.ft.com/content/c93725c4-5e34-4b3b-aae8-dd4c241abebd> THIS
WEEKEND. KR IRS 3423
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 at 21:10, Rangarajan T.N.C. <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2022/5/27/theres-no-such-thing-as-data
>
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