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Re:Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence cri... by hackuser on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @01:51PM (#14141106)
> blindly ignoring all data that correlates with race is also bad

This is a very theoretical, futuristic red herring. Race factors into decision-making far, far too much. It's like worrying that if someone developed a perfect, bug-free crypto library, then everyone would use it and we'd have a monoculture - not really a present concern, and in fact a good problem to have (nor is it an eloquent analogy, but I have to run).

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Re:Courts are using risk-assessment software to sentence cri... by humanrebar on Tuesday April 18, 2017 @02:39PM (#14141587)
I can't really tell if you are for or against algorithmic sentencing from this post.

I think there are fair existing examples both for and against it, so I'm not sure calling either position futuristic or theoretical is fair.

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