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eeeeeeeeeepc t1_iyeq781 wrote

Hungary voted to join in 2003 when non-EU migration was lower, gay marriage was almost universally illegal, the internet was a bunch of freewheeling discussion forums without Trust and Safety teams, and transgenderism was rarely mentioned except when mainstream TV was mocking it for laughs.

But you're right--countries that desire cultural self-determination will have to become financially independent of the Euro-American sphere.

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eeeeeeeeeepc t1_iyel7g5 wrote

>At this moment, for example, in 1984 (if it was 1984), Oceania was at war with Eurasia and in alliance with Eastasia. In no public or private utterance was it ever admitted that the three powers had at any time been grouped along different lines. Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. Officially the change of partners had never happened. Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.

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eeeeeeeeeepc t1_ixh2szl wrote

>Writing in the IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Chugh points to the landmark case Ewert v. Canada as an example of the problems posed by risk assessment tools in general. Jeffrey Ewert is a Métis man serving a life sentence for murder and attempted murder. He successfully argued before the Supreme Court of Canada that tests used by Corrections Services Canada are culturally biased against Indigenous inmates, keeping them in prison longer and in more restrictive conditions than non-Indigenous inmates.

The court only ruled that the test might be culturally biased and that the prison authorities needed to do more research on it. Ewert's own expert didn't argue that he knew the direction of the bias.

The same wishful thinking appears later in the article:

>"Ewert tells us that data-driven decision-making needs an analysis of the information going in—and of the social science contributing to the information going in—and how biases are affecting information coming out," Chugh says.

>"If we know that systemic discrimination is plaguing our communities and misinforming our police data, then how can we be sure that the data informing these algorithms is going to produce the right outcomes?"

>Subjectivity is needed

Does "systemic discrimination" mean that police focus enforcement on indigenous communities, or that they ignore crimes there? Again this is a bias claim of indeterminate direction and size. If we think that differences in crime reporting and clearance rates exist, let's estimate them, adjust the data, and respond rationally rather than retreating into "subjectivity" not disciplined by mathematical consistency.

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