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> the social biases embedded in the law

I’m not sure what you mean by this, do you have any examples?



Example:

Redlining was a racist social bias embedded in the city infrastructure planning and implementation process.

Or

“slaves are legally 3/5th of a human” was encoded into the US constitution

By encoding into the legal structure a social bias, and then using that legal precedent as the goal state, implemented via orthogonal behavior measures, you are creating a measurement system that will enforce whatever goal condition the law encoded , including any biases that were encoded in the original lawmaking process

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise


To be fair I think it’s a bit odd that you only quote American examples (and century old ones at that) in a discussion about a profiling system in France. I can vaguely imagine that France may have laws, today, that are biased too, but I struggle to imagine that they’re anywhere near as bad as the blatantly racist laws America grew up with.

Agree that it dehumanizes citizens though.


I find it odd you find it odd. This is a website primarily used by Americans, which I am, and therefore have the most experience in that context.

I am less familiar with French laws and you agree that there are likely laws which encoded bias.

So we agree that the examples I used of bias encoding are invariant to the source and you accept the premise

So the only thing you response does is give a snide jab at what you perceive as relative foundational inequities in the law.

Was that your intent? To simply shit on America?




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