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by texasbigdata 1898 days ago
Same, but the sentance "Individuals and companies realized that you don't need to pay people with experience any more, you can simply collect better data, and outsource decision-making to interpretations of this data." is probably demonstrably false and at a minimum it'd be very difficult to prove its true over a bull hypothesis that were as good as, if not marginally better than before as a species.

To an extreme it's "well we got horse carriages and cars so like no one is ever gonna run a fast marathon ever again, were outsourcing everything to the hay eaters".

Yeah no. And not that we shouldn't perhaps be more contemplative as a society, but as a species we generally don't atrophy capability that would other wise be complentary and beneficial to us.

Case and point, it's relatively well known "management ability" is a thing across cultures, experience, industry and training. The metrics point to at least in a narrow sense data driven executives outperforming their "solely intuitive" bunch.