I don't know the answer but my experience with venture capitalists is that they're everything from absolute buffoons to incredibly data-centric in decision making
So if Y combinator cares about revenue then I think the answer to your question is no, in aggregate, but that's just a guess based on an assumption of information that I don't actually have
I would just say that the incentives aligned in America for law enforcement to choose "predictive policing", whether they call it that or something else
Personally, I think the black mirror conversation is a false dichotomy and the argument that it only gets worse is a slippery slope fallacy
Predictive Policing is here if we like it or not, it's not new, the feds have been studying how to profile people since before the web was even a thing
I do think the Patriot act was an abuse of power and it continues to be abused but I'm not convinced that we're necessarily worse off (tactically speaking), I just think the law should be just and upheld appropriately
I'm an American living in London and I've been extremely impressed by the quality of policing here compared to America. And part of that quality no doubt has to do with the police dealing with overall less severe crime. So I suppose it's a bit circular
But nonetheless, crime is essentially unsolved in East London and other parts of the country
So I agree that there's a better version of policing but I reject that the solution to crime is just better police training
Put me in my place if this is nonsense but doesn't it make way more sense if the astroturfing is done by WSB goons? I just don't see corporate entities coordinating this kind of thing
https://lemmy.world/post/37974257