247. Automated Welfare – the Simple Violence of Complex Machines
This Machine Kills
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The Relationship Between Attributes and Risk Scores
Being male adds, you know, five points to your risk score and being female adds 15 points. It's also relational. So if you're female with children, that's going to add a different level of risk. And so it compounds these different risk factors into an even higher risk score. The system accounts for that in a way by making these relations riskier as a whole than they are individually. We've really got a dialectical machine learning system here is both the synthesis and antithesis. It is simple and complex. It is targeted and random, all at the same exact time, and in all of the worst ways.
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