Hacker News

Very interesting article

But automation has also privileged utilitarianism, as it is much more amenable to calculation. Non-utilitarian considerations resist quantification. No committee of decision makers would want to be in charge of determining how much of a penalty to apply to patients who drank alcohol, and whatever choice they made would meet fierce objection. In contrast, the veneer of data-driven decision making, even though it hides many normative choices, allows decision makers to reach consensus and to deploy algorithms without endless debate.