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> For example, if you trained only on the corpus of circia 1950 newspapers, would «“man” - “homosexual” ~= “pervert”» or something similar? If it did, what con
by teraflop 8y ago
> For example, if you trained only on the corpus of circia 1950 newspapers, would «“man” - “homosexual” ~= “pervert”» or something similar?
If it did, what conclusion would you be able to draw?
As far as I know, there's no theoretical justification for thinking that word vectors are guaranteed to capture meaningful semantic content. Empirically, sometimes they do; other times, the relationships are noise or garbage.
I am wholeheartedly in favor of trying to examine one's own biases, but you shouldn't trust an ad-hoc algorithm to be the arbiter of what those biases are.
- pasabagi 8y agoI think there's a further problem that there's never been a shortage of evidence, about things like this. The point is, prejudice and discrimination are not evidence-based in the first place. People who support existing unjust structures are generally strongly motivated to turn a blind eye. Even people who don't support them are - it's simply far easier and more socially advantageous to stop worrying and love the bomb.