Analytics in Government

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(06-29-2018, 10:51 PM)Dill Wrote: No. 

How might some groups react when "analytics" decides they need to pay more taxes to support public education, or that their wages need to be lowered, or that their health care should not cover birth control, or that women should be paid more than men for the same work, or that people over 60 have to retire, or that more women, or less, should have abortions?


This proposal seems to me to confuse judgments of fact with judgments of value, though these are wholly separate orders. And a pluralist society like ours is made up of differing demographics, differently empowered, and embracing sometimes very different values, which means group interests must sometimes (or of continuously) come into conflict.  Machines cannot make value judgments, even if they can sometimes be programmed to approximate them when parameters of judgment are simple and agreed to by all parties, as in Leonard's sports example.

I know a machine that values your patience while it works on wiping out the human race.