Comic #6032: software

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Description

The comic features two characters in a dialogue. The text is as follows:

Character 1:
"It’s perfect software for criminal sentencing, except for a few bugs where it metes out harsher punishments when a local sports team loses, changes its leniency based on time of day and temperature outside, is kinder to people when they get sentenced on their birthday, and also has a lot of random noise thrown in so that different computers will vary in their judgments over several orders of magnitude."

Character 2 (a shorter response):
"Plus racism."

Caption at the bottom:
"If humans were algorithms, they would be banned from use in courtrooms."