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"At the center of Northpointe’s argument was an essentialist fallacy: Because persons that police classified as Afro-Americans were re-arrested more often in th
by lallysingh 9y ago
"At the center of Northpointe’s argument was an essentialist fallacy: Because persons that police classified as Afro-Americans were re-arrested more often in the training dataset, they claimed, COMPAS is justified in predicting that other persons classified as Afro-Americans by police—even in a different city, state, and time period—are more likely to be re-arrested. The cycling of classification into data then back into classification echoes W.E.B. Dubois’ 1923 definition, “the black man is the man who has to ride Jim Crow in Georgia.”"
Sounds like the answer is yes.
- Ygg2 9y agoThen I would not say they are building new infrastructure of racism. They are getting garbage input and returning garbage output.
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThe accusation here is that they're maintaining the status quo, in a way, instead of working on making things better.
- Ygg2 9y agoTrue, but the research they are doing - "improving" language to reduce bias, reeks to me of 1984's Doublespeak. What are the chances this won't be co-opted by the other side, to enhance divisions?
- mkane848 9y agoYou're right, let's just do nothing and let the problem get even worse as we push blame onto an algorithm rather than deeply ingrained societal issues
- Ygg2 9y agoI think you are misinterpreting my statement. I never said blame algorithm. I just said, what happens if algorithm (for eliminating some thought patterns using language inference) is used by the other side?
- aninhumer 9y agoThe problem which the quote is pointing to here, is that then people use the old garbage to justify the new reprocessed garbage and vice versa, and it becomes harder for people to realise that it's garbage.
- merlincorey 9y agoHow does that answer the question as an exclusive yes without any room for no?