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The data that shape our lives derive from a tiny (if worryingly growing) fraction of our experience. Algorithms transform these data into analyses, predictions and actions, making new and consequential realities that override the lived experiences they purport to represent. (...) the power of numbers to make realities is not just some philosophical contrivance but a defining feature of the modern condition with a history reaching back to antiquity. 

Michael Barany in Let’s leave philosophers to puzzle over the reality of numbers