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Every time I hit HN I can't help but be amazed at how sad the future is getting
by sanlyx 7y ago
Every time I hit HN I can't help but be amazed at how sad the future is getting
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoHa! People who wear power suits, makeup, expensive haircuts and shoes are already doing all this. Technology just means you don't have to spend time in the stylist's chair to accomplish it any more!
- EpicEng 7y agoUntil you have to, you know, actually meet someone in person.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoI've done entire contracts without ever meeting in person.
- EpicEng 7y agoAnd what percentage of the population do you believe that is true for? Remember, we're talking about people interviewing in general here, not the small percentage of software devs who work 100% remotely on contract. Not to mention you'll just come off as a huge weirdo as soon as you're found out.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoSo, it works for those that do long-distance negotiation. So what? Finding a case that doesn't work so good, is just straw-man stuff.
- EpicEng 7y agoIt's not a straw man when your case applies to a tiny fraction of the human population and mine applies to the rest. Context matters, I was responding to this: >Ha! People who wear power suits, makeup, expensive haircuts and shoes are already doing all this. Technology just means you don't have to spend time in the stylist's chair to accomplish it any more! Did you forget what you wrote?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoDid you forget the entire topic? What other uses for this technology. Which online representation modification is.
- balfirevic 7y agoYou have it reversed. If it is already true that being more symmetrical, imposing and pleasing is advantageous for negotiations, then the future in which we have the tools to counter that bias is getting less sad.
- NateEag 7y agoThese tools are not for countering that bias. They are for reinforcing it.
- balfirevic 7y agoSince this has gotten to the point where we need to be precise with the language: they are not the tools for eliminating the existence of bias. They are tools for countering the effect of bias in particular instances.
- klyrs 7y agoI think you missed your parent's point. Let's examine a related case: fashion models. The industry has been manipulating images for years, to make models skinnier, whiter, removing blemishes, etc. In your language, these are tools for eliminating the effect of bias for the models. The impact that's had on our society is well studied: biases have been disastrously reinforced. This isn't imprecision of language.
- NateEag 7y agoThank you for elucidating my point so well and concisely.
- jonas21 7y agoYou can make a similar argument that the wide availability of soaps and deodorants reinforces biases about how people should smell. While that's true, the fact that anyone can easily match those biases reduces the opportunity to discriminate and makes those biases less of an issue.