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Comment Re:It wasn't the computer (Score 1) 62

It's all the computer. The people making/training the system could be only 50% at their pain discrimination, but the computer can be trained up to 85% because it's a neural net doing the computer vision matches, and it gets trained. The computer is shown a billion videos of real pain, and told it is real pain. Then a billion videos of fake pain and told it's fake pain. A human might be able to do it at 85% (or better) if they looked at two billion videos to learn from. We shouldn't expect a human's instinctual awareness of pained facial features to be better than a trained professional's awareness of pained facial features, whether it's a human or computer doing the analysis.

Comment Re:Recycle! (Score 1) 323

How? By sending them to Soylent News?

Leela: We recycle everything. Robots are made from old beer cans.
Bender: Yeah! And this beer can is made outta old robots.
Leela: And that tech worker is made of old discarded tech workers. Nothing just gets thrown away.
Fry: The future is disgusting!

Comment Re:Ridiculous. (Score 1) 914

Why not mix it up a bit. Have alternating periods of drug induced 'extended' solitary confinement that last about a subjective week

Because even in real solitary, you get exercise time, can talk occasionally to a guard, and sometimes can get something to read. This chemically induced "solitary" is closer to being locked in an isolation chamber. It's only purpose can be torture. It keep the criminal away from population (prison or civilian) for real extended periods, and it doesn't help the criminal better themselves in any way.

Sure they can go right back to their gangs, but that would probably serve as a better deterrent than any death penalty : the stores of years of boredom and talking with psychiatrists.

Just like torture. Oh wait.

Comment Re:Ridiculous. (Score 1) 914

How much rehabilitation/correction do you think will happen with 30 years of solitary confinement? They won't be talking to people in this altered state, or using the yard every day, or even reading. Everything will be in their head for thirty years. Their first act as free men will be murder or suicide.

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