Silicon Valley’s Futile Search For Utopia Via The ‘Perfect Algorithm’

Human programmers produce human algorithms after their own kind, with prejudices and belief structures stemming from their creators. If the ‘creator’ is searching for Utopia, the programs will ultimately reflect that. Technocrats suffer from the terminal intellectual disease of groupthink. ⁃ TN EditorI find myself thinking quite a bit about algorithms these days. The word itself derives from the Latinized name of the Persian scholar Mohammed ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi, rep