It’s just embarrassing sometimes how easily the left gets played automobile industry convinced folks that car ownership is gritty working class while buses are gentrifier icons cash bail industry got a bunch of us to defend it by saying “algorithms” in a spoooooky voice
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I voted no even though I vehemently oppose cash bail. I do statistical analysis for a living, so algorithms are my bread and butter. The problem is that what you get out of an algorithm depends on the data used to develop it. Data from a heavily racially biased 1/
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... criminal justice system would codify that bias and perpetuate it indefinitely. Such an algorithm would assign greater risk to black defendants because that's how the system is weighted now. At least under the current system, we have a chance at nominating more enlightened 2/
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