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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@programming.dev · 1 month ago

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

www.theguardian.com

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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill

www.theguardian.com

schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@programming.dev · 1 month ago
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Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
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  • Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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    minority report incoming…

  • RonSijm@programming.dev
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    That explains why that one junior developer that keeps force-pushing and keeps breaking my build server went into hiding

    • heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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      I had one like that too. We had to disable force-push on GitLab because our commits kept on disappearing.

      • azron@lemmy.ml
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        Force push enabled in a team environment is asking for trouble.

        • heavydust@sh.itjust.works
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          “Force push with lease” in feature-branches that are controlled by 1 person only is fine though.

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    “That’s odd, for some reason it keeps showing us pictures of police officers!”

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    Why though? What action can you take on “Dave is 50% more likely to murder than Jim”?

    Murders are too rare for this to be remotely useful.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection “to achieve 0 murders”, and before you know it everyone’s getting disappeared by the thought police.

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    One good quote from Marvel’s What If:

    I already saw the killer robot precrime bureau movie, and I don’t think it needs a sequel.

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    Inspired by K. Dick’s novel I see…

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      Exactly my thought. Or the beginning of psycho-history?

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    This is literally Minority Report

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    I see they started to expand their repertoire of dystopian tropes to implement.

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    If is.poor=true then recommend.convict

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