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No-fly lists as well. reinforcing trends we would rather diminish Well, of course they are, at the end of the day all any predictive algo is doing is extrapol
by gaius 10y ago
No-fly lists as well.
reinforcing trends we would rather diminish
Well, of course they are, at the end of the day all any predictive algo is doing is extrapolating a trend. It usually requires serious regulatory intervention - such as men being charged more for car insurance because "the computers said so" until legislation was passed barring sex as an input to the model.
- sdenton4 10y agoThe black box nature of the regression can make things difficult, though. If you have a couple other parameters which indicate 'black male' with high probability, you might find layer one reconstructing the notion of gender and layer two making decisions based on it.
- moultano 10y agoMuch better to include the feature in the training, and exclude it from the inference. That actually cancels out the effect, rather than just incentivizing the model to reconstruct it.