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Great podcast. It's largely about the fallacy that seemingly intractable problems can be solved with simple (and proprietary) machine learning models, and the d
by mhaymo 10y ago
Great podcast. It's largely about the fallacy that seemingly intractable problems can be solved with simple (and proprietary) machine learning models, and the damage we do by buying into it. In particular I don't know how the "recidivism risk scores" she rails against can be defended - how can a machine prediction based on a quiz be a better predictor than the judgment of a qualified judge who has presided over the defendant's trial?
- throwaway40483 10y agoI think she addressed this by saying that the judges usually end up being more racist than the baked in racism in the algorithms.