the sentient computer meme is at present pure fantasy, computers are best understood as force multipliers, the longest lever yet produced
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this would strike most as a shocking abrogation of (the ideal of) justice, as well as put a more material fear in said outliers
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but the way the question will be posed is, do the aggregate effects justify the collateral damage?
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and, given the track record, I expect most will answer in the affirmative
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Slightly more worrying: how many would answer in affirmative even if tradeoff clearly bad, if it reduces the monetary cost of the system?
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how bout: tradeoff bad *and* more expensive but funnels pork to contractors in district and creates appearance of decisive action
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The interesting point here is control. PHB control over complex software is very limited. Lots of oppos for sabotage and/or subtle influence
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Thing is, right here: Judges already do this.
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constraints on judges like mandatory minimums/three strikes/customary adherence to federal sentencing guidelines do this more
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the ideal of the judge is a person invested with the power to make subjective decisions based on individual circumstances
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and there is an entire culture built up around impressing upon them and upon us the gravity of this power
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ideal judge is the opposite of the ideal bureaucrat, a person stripped of all such power, there to implement a rigid system
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Not saying I don't like Judges, and having a human arbiter is crucial to bring humanity to an otherwise impartial, but sometimes cruel thing
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After all, Justice is blind, but she enforces laws written by politicians, lobbyists, and bureaucrats. Judges are last line of defence.
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BUT: Sometimes they are asshats :)
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Wonder if prosecutors and defense will learn to game the system by tweaking evidence (input)? Garbage in / garbage out.
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" handle vast majority of cases better than average and fail spectacularly on outliers" More or less like a human jury.
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Not just juries but justice. Police force robotic, everything on video, neural nets doing the sentencing. Everyone goes to jail.
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