[jowea]

Does it matter whether it is a bureaucrat executing the algorithm with paper or software on a computer? The issue must be decided somehow.

[lacrimacida]

At least there’s a hope the person doing it has conscience and does a good job, vetting the data, etc. They could use tech but in the end it’s a human’s decision over an algo. Casual mistakes are okay as long as they’re not embedded in an algo that applies the same mistakes over and over.