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With respect and affection "Human judgement is nothing but a heuristic-driven, semi-conscious probability calculation." is a statement of faith, not an established fact. (How would you establish it?)

Machines don't reason, they compute. It's not the same thing at all. We can reason about things that cannot be represented in any symbolic fashion. Put another way, no machine can tell you: which schools to attend, whether to marry that person, what to have for lunch, the optimal route to work.

Deciding whom to audit is different than deciding how long you should stay in jail.



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