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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by bumby on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @08:18AM (#37764056)
Ignoring incentives takes us into a fairy-tale. Human behavior is largely governed by incentives.

That’s partially my point. Ideally, yes, humans should act impartially and irrespective of incentive. That’s not the world we live in, though.

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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by deadbeeves on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:27PM (#37773093)
I think you're missing my point. I'm saying they shouldn't be allowed to give their incentives higher priority. They should be more tightly scrutinized so that their incentives don't matter.
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