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by acqq 4362 days ago
> Amplify this by 100, and welcome to Minority Report, where you get a arrested for having a "very high score".

Or maybe welcome to Oceania of 1984, having to deal with Thinkpol:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

"The Thought Police (thinkpol in Newspeak) are the secret police of the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. It is their job to uncover and punish thoughtcrime."

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>thinkpol

Yup, we don't have thinkpol yet (and hopefully we never will), but we do have a pretty damn good analogy to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_policing