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Sarah Chen, an analyst at the Global Prediction Department, faces a moral dilemma when she notices a disturbing pattern in the Algorithm’s predictions. In a world where mathematical optimization determines who lives and dies, some sacrifices are deemed necessary for the greater good.

My first encounter with quantified-self tracking was via wakatime in 2020, a website for tracking coding stats(time, language, projects…). I was mostly drawn to the idea of a coding leaderboard, ranking programmers on hours programmed. I now had a definitive score of my “productivity”. The data collected told an interesting story, insights into my habits that were not apparent until analyzed. For one my most productive weekday was more often than not Wednesday. I instinctively thought it was linked my schedule somehow. I had more free time on Wednesday? Turns out this a trend experienced by more developers than they realize (according to Reddit and digging around online). ...