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11-09-2017 , 10:57 AM
Like its all fun and games to laugh at sklanskys ideas about profiling but when the lastest airsecure app has a propietary algorithm using basically the same "logic" which is completely opaque to the rest of us whats the counter strategy? 'We're not to blame the computer says to give you a pat down.'
11-09-2017 , 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by tomdemaine
Its been discussed to some extent but I dont think there is enough focus or concern about the fact that the algorithms that pretty much control our lives (and will more and more) are pretty much only being written by on the spectrum white guys who dont have much experience of social interaction and more easily fall prey to the extremes of "logical reasoning" that we see itf all the time (and I personally have been guilty of).
I mean, not that it is representative, but it's white, Chinese and Indian guys.
11-09-2017 , 11:09 AM
And the financial threat is much more from being an ahole than from driving off Nazis. Uber is still around, but being an ahole definitely cost them a lot.
11-15-2017 , 07:55 PM
Shenanigans going on in VA

http://bluevirginia.us/2017/11/audio...rious-question

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On the second issue, regarding the “split precincts” in Fredericksburg City, Elias explained that this “seems to have resulted in a…significant number of voters in HD-28 being denied their right to vote in the HD-28 delegate race.” Elias said “we think it affects around 650 voters, which is obviously more than the margin that currently separates the two candidates.”

      
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