Criminal Justice

Optimizations and Constraints

In the comments of https://mybrainsthoughts.com/?p=327, a discussion sprang up on goals and optimization that seems worth diving into further. That post covers some ideas on criminal justice and optimal sentencing approaches, and the idea that came up in the comments was using AI to optimize our laws, so as to take the human emotion out …

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Agency on Trial

A friend recently shared The Brain on Trial, an article by David Eagleman, and I found it to raise some interesting questions in the domains of criminal sentencing and agency. Eagleman also wades into the realm of “free will”, but the treatment seems to be only surface-level (at least from a philosophical standpoint) and not …

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