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   Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 23:29:38 JST Cat Hicks

   RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116211951163287005

   Just saw "any usage of machine learning should be regulated" so, yikes

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 23:29:36 JST Rich Felker

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     @grimalkina @mayintoronto Don't trust lawmakers to have any sense, but the obvious way to regulate is regulating automation of decisions based on outputs. Not regulating doing math.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 23:29:37 JST Cat Hicks

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     @mayintoronto I'd also just like to see the drafted regulation because like.....what are you regulating, math? Ridiculous

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@beige.party)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 23:29:38 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @grimalkina *sigh*

     Regulations need to exist to protect human rights. Tools have never been the problem.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 16-Mar-2026 23:37:28 JST Rich Felker

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     @grimalkina @mayintoronto You could also very reasonably regulate/forbid aggregating the types and amount of data on a scale that gives disproportionate and inappropriate power over others.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2026 02:35:01 JST Rich Felker

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     @grimalkina @mayintoronto Yes, it would have to be specific. My comments were about what the guiding principles for drafting those specifics would be, not language you could just write into a regulation.

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     Cat Hicks (grimalkina@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Mar-2026 02:35:02 JST Cat Hicks

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     @dalias @mayintoronto having seen regulation drafting up close, it is really difficult. I would love to see an example of how you'd draft "forbidding aggregating data" and "decisions" and how you'd write a regulation that would define something like "giving inappropriate power". I suspect it would have to be very specific to be workable, and that specificity would undermine what you are imagining as powerful regulation