[HN Gopher] The Spanish Witches of Cartagena
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       The Spanish Witches of Cartagena
        
       Author : Thevet
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-05-14 06:32 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
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       | greatgoat420 wrote:
       | I guess one take away from this would be, be careful about
       | hearing things that confirm your existing beliefs. Another might
       | be that institutions with too much power and no true goal(being
       | that witches do not exist in real life) become corrupt very
       | easily.
       | 
       | Maybe there is some connection between the Spanish Inquisition
       | and AI, given that most AI/ML systems end up reproducing biases
       | inherent in the data/beliefs of those creating them.
        
       | imoverclocked wrote:
       | I love (read: hate) how being a witch wasn't the real problem.
       | The real problem was that she had no affiliation with the church.
        
         | forinti wrote:
         | I think you had to be baptized in order to fall under the
         | jurisdiction of the Church and be fair game to the Inquisition.
         | 
         | There was a case in Spain (or maybe Portugal) in which Jews
         | were tricked into converting and were then judged by the
         | Inquisition.
         | 
         | Then again, I don't think rules were really a problem.
        
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