Posted on 03/14/2016 10:09:07 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
In certain cases computers have made strides in “predicting who will commit a violent crime.”
“I believe the primary role of the state is to teach, train, and raise children. Parents have a secondary role.” - Hillary Clinton, “It Takes a Village”
Sci-fi movies like Minority Report, with a trio of psychics called “recogs” who can see “pre-visions” of crimes yet to be committed, setting in motion a Pre Crime Unit, came to mind when reading about China’s effort to detect “pre-crime.”
Bloomberg Business is reporting that “The Communist Party has directed one of the country’s largest state-run defense contractors, China Electronics Technology Group, to develop software to collect data on jobs, hobbies, consumption habits, and other behavior of ordinary citizens to predict terrorist acts before they occur.”
Prediction? no! Except in totally deterministic systems, it’s impossible to predict anything.
What they mean is calculating the statistical probablity that someone will engage in crime, based on past crimes, and other factors.
As with all other programmatic systems, if the system flags you you’re considered guilty.
But Al Gore has no rhythm!
Did Hildabeast actually say that?
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