That's settled then. I guess nobody's at fault! Success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.
The article is a bit confusing for me, it suggests that Kogan initially went to the parent company of CA and asked for $500,000 for the data+modelling, and they refused?
It's not entirely clear, but at some point some money must have changed hands for the work, the thing that surprises me the most is even with figures like $500k being bandied about, is that the going rate for stuff like this these days?
At first read I had the impression that Kogan was criticized on an "ethical" base, then re-reading it, I understood that they were only arguing on how to divide the loot.
If SCL actually had given 1 million, half to Kogan and 1/4 each to Kosinski and Stilwell, we wouldn't have the mails.
>The correspondence reveals the deep anxiety among university psychologists over the activities of Kogan, ...
Deep anxiety over the activities my sock, they wanted US$ 500,000 and were proposed only US$ 100,000 instead, and there started the disagreement ...
[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-21/facebook-...
And if so, what is the value of such an attitude other than some kind of petty 'told you so' need? Do we demand badges for our wokeness?
It's fine if it hits the mainstream, but if it's because of Trump, and not because of what Facebook is, then it will end up being just another half-assed initiative by only half the population - the half that happens to disagree with one flash-in-the-pan, here-today-gone-tomorrow, and ineffective-to-boot, President.
I'm among those who think the world would probably be better off without both Facebook and Trump, but the consensus out there in the world doesn't agree with that. They elected Trump and continue to make Facebook rich. Somewhat counter-intuitively, there is really not a lot of fodder there for feeling superior about oneself.
On the other hand, the broader responses by the big tech firms seems to be a heavy-handed punishment of run of the mill right wing media. While not illegal it is pretty terrifying to see so much modern day book burning.
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