• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Not sure what’s worse here: how the police overreacted or that the software immediately contacts law enforcement, without letting teachers (n.b.: they are the professionals here, not the police) go through the positives first.

    The idea behind the policy is to stop school shootings. If there were a legitimate threat of violence, you would likely want the police to be notified as soon as possible. The issue here is that the authorities are letting a piece of half-ass code (Read: AI) decide what is a legitimate threat and, worse still, acting on that determination without question.

    They have literally sacrificed an essential freedom for some temporary, and probably illusory, security.

    • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works
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      12 days ago

      the policy is to stop school shootings

      You should try Europe once. It’s more fun than your 3rd world country.

                • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  11 days ago

                  Yes, but one of those things is capable of a lot more damage in a much shorter amount of time.

                  You’ll also have a hard time knifing people from a window with a wide vantage point.

                  Knives are dangerous, and evil people will be evil. But should we just hand out rocket launchers on the side of the road because knives exist?

                  It’s an absurd suggestion, obviously. So is “knives exist so guns are fine.”

              • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                11 days ago

                If you think I’m trying to say the US is better… by any measure LOL! -No. The US is a shithole.

                My point is that if you take guns out of the equation they’ll just be replaced by something else.

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                  11 days ago

                  My point is that your comment makes it sound like gun control would solve nothing. That patently isn’t the case.

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            11 days ago

            “Daily murder” is a sneaky rhetorical maneuver, considering it’s something influenced more by raw population size, than by capita. It’s easy for there to be a “daily murder” in a country of 340,000,000 people, even when the overwhelmingly vast majority of people do not murder.

            Using “few” to trivialize/minimize the racism is no better.

            Shame on you for this disingenuity.

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              11 days ago

              Even when we go per capita the US stays a shithole, it’s not like they were trying to actively misinform people.