The Impossibility of Control in Machine Learning

Curtis: I think the approach that we find in this book offers us perhaps, uh, some kind of rejoinder to the exceedingly bleak picture of modernity we get in all watched over. We cannot know the world, therefore we cannot control the world,. And like we have come to grips with our inadequacy, right? Like the inadequacy of our knowledge, um, those are the points that Curtis is really hammering home very, very heavily to his, like the failures of the modern project.