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Well, AI made our search unusable dogshit. But AI also made us miss our climate goals, so (apnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Data and stats can tell you whatever story you want to promote

Seen this so many times at my work. There's some bone-headed decision and the people in charge are like "look guys we ran the numbers". But the methodology is messed up somehow, or they just ignored / misinterpreted the numbers while pretending they were following the data, or it doesn't bear out in the real world; etc.

When data and common sense disagree you'd better be damn sure in the data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's called "data chauffered": instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

driven data design