Early evidence on “predictive policing” and civil rights
&quot;The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines,&quot; Leto said. &quot;Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgements. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butlerian_Jihad" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Butlerian_Jihad</a><p>Seriously though, how is this not the crudest sort of cargo-cult machine worship?  I&#x27;m not paying taxes to be judged by a goddamned machine.  It&#x27;s crazy.  If the people <i>we&#x27;re paying</i> to administer the system are so degenerate that they would delegate their most essential function to a machine then we need to vote them out in favor of sober, responsible, educated adults.  It&#x27;s like they&#x27;re admitting that they can be replaced by a script!!!<p>Knowing what I know about computers, and computer modelling, I&#x27;m appalled that people would make, buy, and employ these sorts of &quot;voo-doo&quot; machines.<p>(Thin sans-serif body font means you hate your readers, and making it grey means you <i>really</i> hate them.)