Comment by babblefrog on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease · 2010-05-31T17:00:56.146Z · LW · GW

Sorry, not arguing from authority, the quote is a declaration of my values (or maybe just a heuristic :-), I just wanted to attribute it accurately.

My problem may just be lack of imagination. How could this work in reality? If we are talking about groups that are statistically more likely to commit crimes, we already have those. How is what is proposed above different from imprisoning these groups? Is it just a matter of doing a cost-benefit analysis?

Comment by babblefrog on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease · 2010-05-31T16:23:52.417Z · LW · GW

How much of a statistical correlation would you require? Anything over 50%? 90%? 99%? I'd still have a problem with this. "It is better [one hundred] guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer." - Ben Franklin