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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] xtools@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

minority report incoming...

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That explains why that one junior developer that keeps force-pushing and keeps breaking my build server went into hiding

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

I had one like that too. We had to disable force-push on GitLab because our commits kept on disappearing.

[–] bitcrafter@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

"That's odd, for some reason it keeps showing us pictures of police officers!"

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is literally Minority Report

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Inspired by K. Dick's novel I see..

[–] gsv@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

If is.poor=true then recommend.convict