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I’m reminded of the people who want to preserve card catalogs. These catalogs are a system that contains data, and yet they seem to have accumulated details over the years that are important enough to some people to preserve.

On the other hand, I deliberately avoid watching political speeches, preferring the transcript, partly because I don’t want to be unduly influenced by the delivery of the speech. Detachment is sometimes an aesthetic choice.

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Does data science applied to marketing destroy the thing and replace it with its ashes at the same level?

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This probably clashes heavily with your (apparent) metaphysical commitments, but René Guénon's The Reign of Quantity and Signs of the Times is a scathing indictment of this very problem: the attempt by moderns to reduce quality (what you call detail) to quantity.

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