#normalbaum

[thingswhatihaveread]

Sometimes, when I look out at our world—at the highest level—in which thin data have come to stand in for huge complex systems of human and biological relationships, I wonder if we’re currently deep in the Normalbaum phase of things, awaiting the moment when Waldsterben sets in.

The deception that lurks in our data-driven world - Alexis P. Madrigal