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Based on what suspects were thinking; it's a dystopian fable. This is just good policework.


To be fair it is not the case of the 'thought police' in Minority Report. Suspects aren't arrested based on what they are 'thinking', but rather the agreement of 3 supernatural precogs that can see events before they happen. You could replace the precogs with amazingly sophisticated AI, and the points in the film still hold.

So while I agree that this is mostly good police work the case here is of using data analysis techniques to predict likely suspects. What actually makes this story most like 'minority report' is that the suspects where picked up for prior offenses, but investigated essentially because an algorithm said that people in that area at that time are more likely to commit a crime.

I do think this is completely awesome, and a great idea, but I also think the title is not excessively overblown.


How do we stamp out ignorance? That's my question.

I call pedantic troll. Don't feed them.




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