Minority-report

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minority-report

Title text: Annnnnd now I'm kicking myself for missing a pun on the word minority.

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Philip k. Dick wrote a story called 'the minority report" about clairvoyant beings who

Detect crime before it happens.

The weird thing is we're kind of

We have machine learning algorithms that can assess the likelihood that someone will commit a crime, then send police to act accordingly.

Getting there now.

The problem is that the algorithms have no choice but to go off of historical

Data, while ignoring individual characteristics. So, they end up using metrics like poverty, race, and whether your neighbor is a criminal.

It's like having

You know that one elderly relative of yours who makes everyone uncomfortable

Clairvoyant beings who detect crime before it happens.

When he talks politics at christmas?

Only they're a bit

Daft and racist.

Yeah

He rules the

Future.

All is

Lost.

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And convenient yet, all is So

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