Could personalizing laws make society more just? with Omri Ben-Shahar (Big Brains Podcast Ep. 86)

Could personalizing laws make society more just? with Omri Ben-Shahar:
Exploring the benefits and pitfalls of using big data to tailor different rules to different people.
Big data has created a world of personalization. We have personalized medicine, personalized education, personalized advertising. Now, one University of Chicago Law School scholar is asking: Why not personalized law?
In his new book, Personalized Law: Different Rules For Different People, Prof. Omri Ben-Shahar lays out the case for why our idea of equality under the law actually leads to unequal outcomes, and why we should use data and algorithms to tailor our laws to individual people. As he says: If one size fits all doesn’t work for shoes, why should it work for speed limits?
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[@amrys3027]

In other words, total control. We had all this several times already throughout history. No need for repeat.

[@colonelkernel2959]

I hope I never live to see personalized law. Ever.

[@dougchambers55]

I really like the equal burden fines discussed. They are far more just but I do agree that it should end there or near there. The incorporation of big data into laws seems like a black mirror episode

[@idcaf]

What you're against is what already exist. Law is not blind now because we have emotional algorythms (eg. Humans) making decisions. So i'm sorry to say your hopes aren't coming true.

[@colonelkernel2959]

This is absolutely fucking terrifying

[@baldering]

This is mental and would undoubtedly be manipulated by those in power

[@dawnclabaugh3598]

??? Apparently only regular people are punished (for no reason) while criminals are running rampant on the street and in "government" and other places of "authority".

[@jasontadema5034]

Drop it, dangerous, misuse able

[@Ryan-on5on]

I am intrigued by the equal burden fines idea, but everything else about this personalized crime paradigm (esp. the use of big data as criminal offense predictors) belongs only in some nightmarish dystopian fiction; too much room for nefarious legal manipulation by authoritarian-minded govt. officials or AI.

[@finbarr3363]

This is dangerous for freedom and restrictive for human rights.