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Holy shit


The Chinese are either incredibly brilliant, or they've just started something that hopefully doesn;t catch on. I can understand the problem with corrupt judges, but still. Letting a computer decide a person's fate? Damn. The world just got a whole lot scarier today.
 
Icarusintel said:
Holy shit


The Chinese are either incredibly brilliant, or they've just started something that hopefully doesn;t catch on. I can understand the problem with corrupt judges, but still. Letting a computer decide a person's fate? Damn. The world just got a whole lot scarier today.
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God dammit. This reminds me of something. Is it a movie? A series? I think it was a comic strip.

Anyway, it also just featured a computer saying what punishment someone got. But then the computer flips and gives a death sentence to a guy who stole a purse. But the technicians must follow the computer's judgement, because it is infallible.
 
Beerdude26 said:
God dammit. This reminds me of something. Is it a movie? A series? I think it was a comic strip.

Anyway, it also just featured a computer saying what punishment someone got. But then the computer flips and gives a death sentence to a guy who stole a purse. But the technicians must follow the computer's judgement, because it is infallible.
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There was also something like that in a book called 'Mockingbird'. Robots controlled society, judged people, controlled people's thought patterns, etc. Until one robot gets tired of excisting and... Well, you'll have to read it. Great book though.
 
They better make sure there're no bugs in it. I'm glad I don't live in China.
 
hmmm, cant decide if thats good or not. On one hand its a computer and would know the average sentence for a certain crime, then again, it wont show mercy.
 
Its one thing to use a computer system to look up similiar cases in the past and use that as reference.

Judges currently have to do something like that here in the US, where they look up past cases of the same incident and use it for their decision (or they can overrule it)... i dunno if they use a computer database to keep all the records and search but they should if they dont.

But having the computer determine an outcome? Thats crazy... theres way too many variables and you can't set priorities the same with them. What if someone was temporarily insane? What happens to reasonable doubt and a jury?
 
Offense: Hacking.

*computer compiles case*

Result: "DEATH FOR THE COMPUTER KILLER"
 
"The court will now hear the case of --"
- GUILTY
"I object!"
- VOID
"This is a violation of my constitutional rights!"
- UNRECOGNIZED INPUT: 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS'
"I'm going to appeal this! I'll take it to Amnesty International!"
- FATAL ERROR
 
kirovman said:
"The court will now hear the case of --"
- GUILTY
"I object!"
- VOID
"This is a violation of my constitutional rights!"
- UNRECOGNIZED INPUT: 'CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS'
"I'm going to appeal this! I'll take it to Amnesty International!"
- FATAL ERROR
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rofl @ "hear the case of..." GUILTY
 
Just one step closer to our most perfect Autocratic society. :D
 
tehsolace said:
Its one thing to use a computer system to look up similiar cases in the past and use that as reference.

Judges currently have to do something like that here in the US, where they look up past cases of the same incident and use it for their decision (or they can overrule it)... i dunno if they use a computer database to keep all the records and search but they should if they dont.

But having the computer determine an outcome? Thats crazy... theres way too many variables and you can't set priorities the same with them. What if someone was temporarily insane? What happens to reasonable doubt and a jury?
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Temporarily insane? I think I know what your saying..but I also think that sounds like an excuse more than anything else.
 
kirovman said:
Autocratic.... and technocratic :O
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Technocracies seem so keen. When I hear the word, I think of a bunch of scientists and robots candyflipping to pounding techno music 24/7 in a metropolis of EXCELLENCE.
 
Death.Trap said:
Temporarily insane? I think I know what your saying..but I also think that sounds like an excuse more than anything else.
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whether it sounds like a bogus claim or not, its still something that many cases end up in... and if courts don't dismiss it, i dont want a computer dismissing it either...
 
They are not letting the computer make the desision, they just give the judge a guideline. Don't forget, this is about stopping corruption, so they record what the PC said and what the judge actually gave, and if theres a large difference, they investigate why. Stops the judge being bribed to give a light/heavy sentance.
 
Whats funny is the software is created by a human, and humans are flawed. :smoking: Whats next a magic 8 ball is going to be the judge because people can't do their jobs?
 
I suppose it would be harder to hack the computer then to terrify the judge.
 
SYSTEM ERROR

Matrix Code Messed Up

EXECUTE ALL PERSONNEL..

I MEAN EXECUTE ALL PERSONS

ERROR ERROR ERROR

Now that would be freaky...
 
Mirror mirror on the wall, am I the most righteous of them all?

You're a bastard and a crook, so you'll hang upon a hook.
 
Is the computer going to print out "pwned!" across the screen after sentencing? :p
 
I wonder what are specs on that computer... AMD or Intel? Nvidia or ATI? Could play BIG factors when making decisions.
 
ailevation said:
I wonder what are specs on that computer... AMD or Intel? Nvidia or ATI? Could play BIG factors when making decisions.
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yea Nvidia may have lowered the quality of the result for a faster response time...
 
I proved my innocence by killing a load of people.
 
sc:hello i am smarter child
Lawyer(L): hello when will be the verdict be held
sc: Tell me about it
L:hows 28 july
sc: oo i love the number 28
L: July is that fine
sc: oo i know alot about july heres some links
www.blah.com www.blah.com


etc
 
One step closer to installing Maintonon as the ruler of humanity :D

-Angry Lawyer
 
The Chinese will own us all someday. After they wreck the world economy through cheap labor and finishing off the worlds oil reserves when the dicator there buys every citizen a SUV they will then just march out with a 200 million man army and take as much land as they want. Yo might as stop googling the word "freedom" right now.
 
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