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Hell, it's easy to imagine that machine learning could do it. But like any man-made system, how do we guarantee that the system isn't trained on inputs that ge
by bufordsharkley 9y ago
Hell, it's easy to imagine that machine learning could do it.
But like any man-made system, how do we guarantee that the system isn't trained on inputs that generate bias? For in a large economy, bias in allocation is a form of human suffering, large or small.
- danieltillett 9y agoI am sure there would be bias - the question is would it be any worse than the serious bias inherent now. Anyway it is just a thought I found interesting :)
- bufordsharkley 9y agoIt's very interesting. I'd worry most about one thing: that the free enterprise system is inherently flexible, and will allow for new inputs its "designers" never considered. It'd be a very poor outcome for a neural network that it refuses to consider a new industry that it wasn't trained on... imagine a network trained in the 1950s introduced to the technology of today. (Though perhaps a different way of framing things would let this fall away.) In general, a market of prices is a useful system for measuring how much people want things. Without a price system, we'd need some new way to measure this...