Absurd but also predicted, no? I am sure I recall people joking here on HN about how de-"biased" dating sites would surely arrive at some point soon, and here w

Absurd but also predicted, no? I am sure I recall people joking here on HN about how de-"biased" dating sites would surely arrive at some point soon, and here we are. Bear in mind this comes from the same school of thought that brought us "air conditioning is sexist": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/air-conditioning-office-still-sexist-dont-care-anyone-says/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/air-conditioning-offi... If anything I find myself agreeing with that author in a strict logical sense: if there are two temps that are comfortable and it's set to the colder one for men, you can argue that's sexist by the dictionary definition, albeit also practical. But it's still kind of absurd. Researchers also got unhappy that an AI trained on bulk text learned doctors are usually men and nurses are usually women. Their solution wasn't to try and encourage more men into nursing and vice-versa, but rather, to edit the AI so it believed in equal outcomes.