• Beej Jorgensen
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    13 days ago

    Whoever wrote that code is definitely the right team to rewrite social security.

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Australia did this once. We called it “robodebt”. An algorithm that falsely cut people off social security and ultimately killed some of them.

      • Morphit @feddit.uk
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        12 days ago

        I would say don’t give DOGE any ideas but I think that’s less bad than some of their own.