Paul Novosad

I think this is a bigger issue than this in economics. We talk about the 'efficiency' increase of lots of counterfactual. But that only masks the fact that we may not actually know the underlying objective/utility.

It’s key to remember that machine learning requires an objective function. This is extremely hard (impossible?) to specify. Try it. Try to do it for very simple decisions. Exponentially harder for complex decisions. Like sentencing.

Universal basic income would dramatically decrease recidivism. It would also decrease incarceration rates. Or we could just continue arguing if machines or people are better at locking people up based on how we define "better."

@AyshaBintMahmud

And things considered this still seems like a solid performance by ML.

@DanielMejiaL