[ccvannorman]

> These brokers are training their model on the corrupted data of the past. They look at the racialized sentencing outcomes of the past -- the outcomes that sent young black men to prison for years for minor crack possession, while letting rich white men walk away from cocaine possession charges -- and conclude that people from poor neighborhoods, whose family members and friends have had run-ins with the law, and "predict" that this person will reoffend, and recommend long sentences to keep them away from society

This is an extremely important point to our times. Be aware that this sort of algorithm is harming society when it comes to prison sentences, and you're paying for it at multiple levels.

> Amazon carefully tracks those customers who abandon their shopping carts .. interested in knowing everything they can about "recidivism" among shoppers .. [and they seek out and talk] to their subjects -- to improve their system.

If the prison system was run like Amazon ... [it would be] oriented toward rehabilitation ...

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