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[–] jatone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago
[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

I'm gonna lose it

[–] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

...properly set incentives uncover ultimate goal...

[–] reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

It's starting to feel like everyday is a little worse than the day before.

[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What if they reject 100% of applications? Seems perversely incentivised.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Apparently there are some "penalties" for wrongful rejections. So for these soulless fucks this will likely become an optimization problem of achieving maximum rejections while minimizing probability of getting caught. They will likely even do statistics like "which kind of health problems/demographics can be more often rejected without it being seem like a wrongful rejection".

[–] TomArrr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

This makes Australia's recent #robodebt fiasco seem almost benign in comparison

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I can see absolutely nothing wrong with this