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Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology, and don't work for employers that use it. If you cry for regulation, it is a sign that governm
by psychiatrist24 6y ago
Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology, and don't work for employers that use it.
If you cry for regulation, it is a sign that government has too much power. But more regulation gives governments even more power.
Make sure that your citizens have basic rights. Obviously being judged by an algorithm can not make for fair laws. Governments can use algorithms for their assessments, but their has to be a line of appeal.
- duxup 6y ago>Just don't send your kids to a school that uses such technology It's not really a realistic option for most people. Many folks just can't change schools at will. They simply don't have that kind of flexibility in their life / options.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoSo expend some effort to change schools. Why does everything have to be handed to you on a silver platter?
- duxup 6y agoThat's also not an option for people, can you imagine that? I feel like we're going down one of those "I'm not sure how to tell you that other people's lives aren't as simple as you make them out to be." kind of conversation.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoSchools are already shit in many ways. What is your answer to that? Just wait out the years and hope for the right politicians to be elected and change it? They might give your kids diversity training and teach them they are unworthy scum. They might deny evolution theory. They will mess up your kids. And all you say is "nothing I can do"? I never said it is simple. You still live in a free country, though. What on earth could deprive you of all options?
- duxup 6y ago>What on earth could deprive you of all options? Time, Money? You're idea here about what options are available to people is strange to me. You know people's options to do things in life are limited by a variety of factors right?
- psychiatrist24 6y agoTime and money can be managed. If you don't have enough money, look for a better job (it might help against the time issues, too). To change schools, you might have to move anyway, so you might as well look for a job somewhere else. If you really have no other options, then maybe AI that detects emotions is the least important of your worries.
- duxup 6y agoYeah that's the kind of hand waving problems away that I kind feared. I'm not sure you've got the perspective to really understand what some folks are dealing with in life if you can just so easily hand wave so many things.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoI rather consider your kind of argument to be hand wavy. "Some people simply have no options or opportunities whatsoever". Can you provide some actual examples? And what is even the point to talk about those hypothetical people? Since nothing can be done, their situation can never ever change, there is no point in discussing it. Yes there may be some people who are too sick to work. Everybody else can go look for another job. And the ones who are too sick to work probably have other people taking care of their kids already. So those other people can go look for another job.
- DC1350 6y agoJust get more money 4Head
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- Frost1x 6y agoShopping privatized policy through your wallet/feet just doesn't work. It requires critical mass from consumers and the largest portion of consumers will not, or perhaps are in situations where they cannot, resist with their feet/wallet. I'll take more powerful democratic government over more powerful unchecked privatized (authoriatian) power any day of the week. I'd be happy if both had less concentrated power and citizens had significantly more power. The way to give citizens power is through law that is clearly and explicitly designed to empower average citizens against both government and private wealth. We have a fair amount of such protection built into our governmental system that does just this for citizens with respect to government (after all, this sort of authoriatian tyranny is one of the reasons we have the US now). We have significantly less clear and explicit law that protects citizens (consumers) from concentrated private wealth (businesses), giving private wealth a massive grey zone of unscrupulous space to play around in.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoThis is not an issue of concentrated private wealth. Most schools are run by governments. You are right, citizens need to be empowered against their governments. But regulations give governments more power, not less. And if you say the majority of consumers doesn't care about some issue, what makes you think democracy could provide a solution? You also don't need that many feet to create an alternative school. You just need enough children to justify an extra building and teachers, or supplement the home schooling.
- _Microft 6y agoFunny, my view as European is that governments are the only entities powerful enough to actually keep companies in check. Without them, companies would do to you whatever they would like.
- Lhd 6y agohave you considered that perhaps companies and governments are together on this?ok, governments do slow down things and come up with regulations here and there (if they decide to). Imo, at the end of the day, they both play on the same team...
- _Microft 6y agoCall me a sweet summer child but I actually believe that our (German) government is still by the people and for the people.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoI'm also an European, and I disagree strongly. Not everybody in Europe is a socialist. The only thing that guarantees fair treatment is competition (so that for example a worker can quit and work somewhere else). Government rules just breed corruption and inefficiency that harms everybody.