247. Automated Welfare – the Simple Violence of Complex Machines
This Machine Kills
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The System's Negative Impact on Your Risk Score
The system accounts for all of these different attributes in its model, but it doesn't do so in a qualitative or complex way. If there's a comment on the person's appearance that appears in the case workers interview notes with the subject, then that is marked into the system as a one, which is a true value. And if there's no comments on appearance in the case Workers notes, that's marked into thesystem as a zero of false value, literally binary. Importantly, it does not matter the content of the comment. It doesn't matter if the comment is like, wow, Ed is so enthusiastic and spirited. He is, you know, dressed really sharply. I think
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