"A Mulching Proposal" * is a fine bit of Gothic comedy. It manages to connect and satirize big data, science, social attitudes towards the elderly, automation, and more in a few pages of shrieking horror.
Start with the subtitle: "Analysing and Improving an Algorithmic System for Turning the Elderly into High-Nutrient Slurry." Yes. After all, "Sometimes the problem is not how the sausage gets made, but that they’re making people into sausage." Then proceed.
*The title is a play on "A Modest Proposal," a classic text and mandatory in the Infocult canon.
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