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But you expect algorithms to provide answers to social problems. Fuck me, it's really hard being an atheist when Christians have all the good cussing.
https://www.wired.com/story/algorithms-supposed-fix-bail-system-they-havent/
Please stop.
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Please stop.
Bruce, this is a theory that has been researched and discussed by academics for half a century. I don't think @eseman was blindly saying its a good idea or would solve the world's problems. Its just a path that humanity might possibly take at some point. Its a speculative theory.
Also, dismissing a futurist theory because of teething problems with contemporary tech is not something that turns out to be the right approach usually.
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But you expect algorithms to provide answers to social problems.
No....? I expect algorithms to be a useful tool to enable better policy decisions to be made. We’re barely making use of one of the most powerful tools humanity has ever created to solve problems that profoundly affect peoples’ lives. It’s not a panacea, and I’m not suggesting it is. But there’s literally zero chance that a single human elected representative can even read and fully comprehend all the different legislation in a single congressional year and its wider impacts. To make things more difficult still, we expect that person to perform various other job functions, and be charismatic, and be helpful with our individual drama, and be impervious to self-benefitting corruption. That’s not going to happen.
However, there are probably parts of that job that can be made easier and improved by using the internet/computer algorithms to help compile, process and interweave mass data sets.
Stonehedge
Eseman
Difference between a computer and a politician is that you wouldn’t expect a computer to care about you.