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Anyway if this is a point about the CS meme then yes, science is dead in the sense that everyone believes data can solve everything and anything. It's become the end, rather than the means to an end. Rather than viewing data as a tool to be used to create other tools the data itself is manipulated and allowed to draw upon itself. It's the same problem large companies have with focus testing and design-by-committee: after a point only certain datasets are allowed because they reinforce what the organization wants, not what it needs.
People have become aware of this on the left with algorithmic bail adjustment systems being "racist" and people on the right have become aware of it as data-driven advertisement no longer promotes products they want to buy. It's probably an unsustainable death spiral down until the system collapses due to outside pressure - the economy itself falling to bits due to covid.
