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I agree with you, though I think that his point is even more, well, pointed.

It isn’t that using “algorithms” is, as you say, a shortcut for bureaucracies. It is that they would do this exact thing with human decisions making if it were economical. The “algorithms” would be instantiated in people if only it were practical to do so.

The “algorithms” are simply a Python version of the bureaucracies‘ business logic.