{"id":178460,"date":"2018-11-20T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/20\/this-will-never-be-adopted\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T19:31:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T00:31:00","slug":"this-will-never-be-adopted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/11\/20\/this-will-never-be-adopted\/","title":{"rendered":"This Will Never be Adopted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have made some <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-11-robo-nose-k-officers.html\">remarkable progress on artificial &#8220;noses&#8221; that could replace the use of dogs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do not believe that any element of the state security apparatus in the United States, because this is the last thing that they want.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they want <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clever_Hans\">Clever Hans<\/a>,<sup>*<\/sup> which is to say an animal that they can cue in a subtle manner in order to confirm their own biases.<\/p>\n<p>When a cop pulls over someone for driving while black, the last thing that he wants is a device which will provide a fair and unbiased review of the evidence, said peace officer just wants to bust an, &#8220;uppity n****r.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Wikipedia has the skinny on the horse, &#8220;Clever Hans (in German: der Kluge Hans) was an Orlov Trotter horse that was claimed to have performed arithmetic and other intellectual tasks.&#8221;  The horse was actually reading the body language of his trainer without his knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have made some remarkable progress on artificial &#8220;noses&#8221; that could replace the use of dogs. I do not believe that any element of the state security apparatus in the United States, because this is the last thing that they want. Instead, they want Clever Hans,* which is to say an animal that they can &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[526,427,595],"class_list":["post-178460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-law-enforcement-misconduct","tag-science","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178460"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}