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by AndrewKemendo 3549 days ago
My point is that it's the same thing. Individuals with outsized power and influence can affect billions of people based on their own judgments and implicitly make those judgments automatically for billions.

That's what this question is all about - should machine systems be responsible for the kind of sweeping decisions that humans are making on those populations now? Probably.