It only reflects preferences.
It only optimizes.
It only learns.

That’s the lie we agreed not to examine.

An algorithm is a frozen decision.
Someone chose what counts.
Someone decided what disappears.
Someone translated values into math and called it objectivity.

Neutrality is the favorite costume of power.
When a system claims it has no opinion, it usually has the strongest one.

We don’t live under algorithms because they are smart.
We live under them because they are convenient.
They save us from choosing, from arguing, from being wrong in public.

The danger isn’t that machines will think like humans.
It’s that humans will stop thinking at all.

Efficiency is not wisdom.
Optimization is not truth.
And silence is not consent.

— J. Deep

Writer. Witness. A heretic in the age of algorithms.

Tags: Heresy · Technology · Power