@andy @rachelwilliams @Sanlear @kailagenevieve @kathygriffin @Jslez @jeffjarvis @Michele

Wow, I slept in a bit (west-coast time) and woke up to this mega-thread. Thanks for all the smart remarks.

I got sufficiently exercised that I wrote a blog piece trying to explain why I think algorithms are necessary and what we might expect from them: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/11/28/On-Algorithms

I stole the title from Jenny Holzer.