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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Technophiles are trash. Computers are real cool *to a point* and anything after is a disgusting mockery of life itself
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I just really want to die on the hill that computers even now are still only tools used by humans, "true AI" may exist someday but right now it's a distant dream, and everything in the world that's "computer-generated" is just human-generated with extra steps
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That means whenever people treat "the Internet" as this amorphous digital God out there that just gives you information out of nowhere for free it's one big lie There's always a human or group of humans who did it
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A lot of credit for good stuff gets lost because of this But, possibly far more importantly, a lot of blame for serious harm is also dodged this way
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This comes up right now in US constitutional law The Sixth Amendment of the Bill of Rights explicitly gives you the right to "confront the witnesses against you" in a trial The witness can't be a camera, or a sensor, or an algorithm, it has to be a person
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Stupid jokes people make about "calling a red light camera to the stand" aside, this is very relevant on a deep legal level The red light camera can't issue you a ticket A human being looked at the footage generated by the camera, interpreted it, and made the call
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"The algorithm" never does anything without a human being's consent and agency, even if the human being acts out of benign neglect and turns themselves into a rubber stamp
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The fact that in a criminal trial that human has to come forward and give an accounting of themselves is really fucking important, in ways the writers of the Bill of Rights didn't anticipate It sharply limits the power of the alliance between Big Tech and Law Enforcement
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(I say they didn't anticipate it, but they DID anticipate it, because the idea that tech changes the situation is FALSE An anonymous tip submitted by a written note isn't DIFFERENT from anonymously submitted surveillance footage, even if the latter looks more convincing)
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