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Selecting user commands in style (Python)

If you write an interactive program that takes user commands as an input, you can select the appropriate action for a given command by going through a sequence of if... else if statements. But if you write in Python, there’s always a cooler way to do things. A method I like personally in this situation is defining a dictionary where the keys …
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Information Consumerism: The Price of Hypocrisy

📖 https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/ueberwachung/information-consumerism-the-price-of-hypocrisy-12292374.html

↬ “Policymakers who think that laws can stop this commodificaton of information are deluding themselves. Such commodification is not happening against the wishes of ordinary citizens but because this is what ordinary citizen-consumer want. Look no further than Google’s email and Amazon’s Kindle to see that no one is forced to use them: people do it willingly. Forget laws: it’s only through political activism and a robust intellectual critique of the very ideology of “information consumerism” that underpins such aspirations that we would be able to avert the inevitable disaster.”

The five principles key to any ethical framework for AI

📖 https://tech.newstatesman.com/policy/ai-ethics-framework

↬ Without an ethical framework, “better safe than sorry” becomes the only guiding rule, excessive caution overrides innovation, and we all lose out

The Fantasy of Opting Out | Brunton & Nissenbaum

📖 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-fantasy-of-opting-out/

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