"It turns out that the algorithm is mostly just assessing need, that is, how long patients would survive without a transplant."
this is a damming essay about UK's liver transplant matching algo
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-uks-liver-transplant-matching?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1008003&post_id=151516725&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1vxw01&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
this is a damming essay about UK's liver transplant matching algo
https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-uks-liver-transplant-matching?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1008003&post_id=151516725&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1vxw01&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor... Heard of them before. I think from Adam Conover's podcast?
automation has also privileged utilitarianism, as it is much more amenable to calculation. Non-utilitarian considerations resist quantification."