Cassie Kozyrkov
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
We pronounce data like it's got a capital D. It doesn't.
It deserves no respect.
None.
Data is just memory.
It's just what we chose to write down.
It's writing.
And you hear people, you know, if someone said to you, if it's written in a book, it must be true.
What would you say to them?
Yeah, you would laugh.
And yet the same person who laughs turns around and goes, it's in the data.
Data sets are like books.
They're like textbooks.
Some human makes them.
Some human decides this is important to keep and this is not important to keep.
And so it's very, very subjective what goes in, what doesn't.
Yeah, and by the way, AI bias, if you've heard of that, I'll give you what I call the Hemingway lecture.
Are you familiar with the saddest short story in the English language?
No.
You know this?
The six-word short story?