• bitcrafter
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    7 days ago

    “That’s odd, for some reason it keeps showing us pictures of police officers!”

  • Jade
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    6 days ago

    This is literally Minority Report

  • RonSijm
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    7 days ago

    That explains why that one junior developer that keeps force-pushing and keeps breaking my build server went into hiding

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    8 days ago

    Why though? What action can you take on “Dave is 50% more likely to murder than Jim”?

    Murders are too rare for this to be remotely useful.

    • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      So they can use it to dramatically expand data collection “to achieve 0 murders”, and before you know it everyone’s getting disappeared by the thought police.

  • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
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    7 days ago

    One good quote from Marvel’s What If:

    I already saw the killer robot precrime bureau movie, and I don’t think it needs a sequel.

    • gsv
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      7 days ago

      Exactly my thought. Or the beginning of psycho-history?