fundamental constraint on applications is the bias/variance tradeoff, whether you underfit or overfit your inputs
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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spoke in terms of the ideal (model) advisedly, of course you get judgements only as good as the judge
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like the stereotypical argument that the constraints and diffusion of responsibility in democracy (which I don't agree...
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