"Selection" is responsible for all good outcomes, including the entire course of natural history that led to your comment. Natural selection got us mitochondria, eyes, legs, thumbs. Sexual selection gave us a brain capable of reasoning about itself. Machine learning is just the next step in that progression. It's amazing that the culmination of 3.7 billion years of selection is a mind that can come up with elaborate ways to cast aspersions on the selection mechanism that spawned it.

You know why I love machine learning? It's immune to anti-intellectual fads. It speaks the same truth that children do. While you can make an algorithm spit out the answers you want, you have to explicitly train it to do so, making the selective blindness and hypocrisy we demand crystal clear.