Comment on An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her.

NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And that’s why I’m against ALL such things.

  Not because they can’t be done right and you can’t teach people to use them.

  But because there’s a slippery slope of human nature where people want to offload the burden of decision to a machine, an oracle, a die, a set of bird intestines. The genie is out and they will do that again and again, but in a professional organization, like police, one can make a decision of creating fewer opportunities for such catastrophes.

  The rule is that people shouldn’t use machines above their brains, as one other commenter says, and they should only use this in a logical OR with their own judgment made earlier, as another commenter says, but the problem is in human nature and I’d rather not introduce this particular point of failure to police, politics, anything juridical and military.

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  • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What is that?

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      • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s from movie Idiocracy from hospital scene. Initial diagnosis.

        Here’s part of the scene: youtu.be/LXzJR7K0wK0

        The average man from 2005 is now by far the smartest man in the world.

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      • kat_angstrom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a Doctor’s diagnostic desk from the film, “Idiocracy”

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And that’s why I’m against ALL such things.

    Absolutely, ACAB

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• aport@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Even when given the best and most sophisticated tools and equipment available, police will manage to fuck things up at every opportunity because they’re utterly incompetent.

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• EatATaco@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But the system seems to be better than police officers. Which is entirely believable. Humans have all kinds of biases that make the decisions we make far less than desirable.

  Per the article, it has decreased the risk of repeated violence and its the best we have. Why would you want to go back to a worse system?

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