The bullshit "image enhancement" button that they have in shows like CSI is finally leaving the realm of science fiction and entering reality, where it can be revealed that "enhancing" an image from data you don't have is just a word for "making shit up"https://twitter.com/nickstenning/status/1274374729101651968?s=20 …
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How does the "simulation" actually add information? The computer wasn't there, the computer didn't magically scan the crime scene and build a 3D model of it All the data that went into the model just came from shit people said in the report in the first place
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And we've turned the computer into this Oracle at Delphi where we act like it's so smart it can create a realistic physics model based on shit from a police report we put into it to *prove* that a murder did or did not happen a certain way It's really disturbing
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Like the vast majority of this Big Data stuff people try to sell you is a human analyst who already has their own opinion about a social phenomenon or whatever and then carefully looks for datasets and algorithms for interpreting them that sound like they match what they think
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The idea that a computer is at all capable of answering a question like "How do Generation Z youths feel about Obama's legacy" is obscene, it's ridiculous But people act like doing a term search on Instagram comments or something can "approximate" this somehow
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Experts have long been used to smuggle in the worst kinds of *bias based purely on hearsay* because they’re largely exempt from hearsay rules. Like “in my training and experience this gang always does X before criming.” Computer simulations just make this sooo much worse
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