Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible?
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#2"Using case studies involving machine learning and other hastily-executed figments of Silicon Valley's imagination, I will explain why computer security (and larger notions of ethical computing) are difficult to achieve if developers insist on literally not questioning anything that they do since even brief introspection would reduce the frequency of git commits."
For anyone who hasn't heard a James Mickens talk, do yourself a favor!
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#3James Mickens is pure gold
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#4James Mickens is pure gold https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
He is! I've seen him present a couple of times and he's great. Funny as hell, super engaging, and makes good salient points.
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#5"I'm not saying that machine learning is the portal to a demon universe, I'm just saying that some doors are best left unopened."
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#6"Would you want Kingsley doing these things?"
Depends on how mission critical is and how accurate Kingsley is?
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#7Regarding the "we don't know how this stuff works" point, doesn't the FDA approve a ton of drugs where we don't know the exact mechanism of how it works? Do we need to know exactly and precisely how something works to know _that_ it works?
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#8James Mickens is pure gold https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens
He is like that in real life, too... I am in his department, and every single social event ends with him surrounded by a group of people, listening to his hilarious rants. At the same time, he's a great teacher, too. Somehow you learn things while listening to 90 minutes of his stand-up comedy.
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#9Regarding the "we don't know how this stuff works" point, doesn't the FDA approve a ton of drugs where we don't know the exact mechanism of how it works? Do we need to know exactly and precisely how something works to know _that_ it works?
Yes they do, but they circle the risks with statistics, when the life expectancy and quality of life goes up vs the current best treatment, the unknowns side effects can’t be that bad.
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#10I love some good James Mickens content. Highly encourage people look up his other work, especially his talks.