Comment on Bill Would Force The Department of Veterans Affairs to Overhaul Suicide Prevention Algorithm That Favors White Men.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  While I agree that many are too eager to put anything even tangentially related to tech in this community, this belongs. This is a piece of technology that is wildly relevant to this community and to a politics community. Sometimes they are inextricable. More and more these days whether we like it or not.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is a debate about how the US government handles mental health problems amongst veterans really “wildly relevant” to the Technology community on Lemmy?

    Idk, to me it seems like they’re not actually that related at all, beyond them using a database to attempt to figure out who’s more at risk.

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    • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry Zek, when technology affects people’s lives it’s technology news. Especially when affects who lives and dies.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Of course it’s a political discussion. It’s a discussion of whether the US government should have their system for triaging veteran mental health changed (if what this article states is true, then yeah maybe they should).

        I’m not really sure why something being a matter of politics makes it a bad thing.

        Regardless, it’s only tangentially related to technology. That’s my point.

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