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Are you going to give them cancer first too? This is a horrifying proposal not only on the ethics front but also in the scientific uselessness of it. This is
by epistasis 4mo ago
Are you going to give them cancer first too?
This is a horrifying proposal not only on the ethics front but also in the scientific uselessness of it.
This is exactly the type of thing that gave the Nazis the bad name they deserve.
- juleiie 4mo ago[flagged]
- wongarsu 4mo agoUntil you get to the second order effects. If we want to find a cure for some disease, but we don't have enough people to do experiments on (maybe a lot of eligable prisoners died in previous trials) judges now have an incentive to hand out life sentences to people with that medical condition Even just subconsciously that would have an effect
- juleiie 4mo ago[flagged]
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- wongarsu 4mo agoThat won't create justice, only judges that forever encode current prejudices
- ycombinator_acc 4mo agoAs opposed to future prejudices? I agree: the trials are not speedy enough. None of us will live long enough to take advantage of the endgame version of this.
- techpression 4mo agoThere’s literally nothing pointing towards this direction, rather the opposite. Also the problem is not only judges, but the scope of detective work being done and when the crime was discovered etc. Judging comes last, but I guess we could deploy the infallible robot police squad which will do a flawless crime scene analysis etc.