Five little questions about automated decisions

In the early 90s, Umberto Eco published a collection of essays called How to Travel with a Salmon, a compilation of some of his newspaper columns. It contains two of my favorite pieces by him, ever. One is called On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire at a Scale of 1:1. It spins out a speculative and ludicrous attempt to make a perfect map, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s extremely…