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Which loops back around to my original point, which is that the notion that we should alter or influence the algorithm because its output does not match our wor
by manfredo 7y ago
Which loops back around to my original point, which is that the notion that we should alter or influence the algorithm because its output does not match our worldview or politics is not the removal of bias it is the deliberate injection of our personal biases.
The whole point of using the algorithm was to make sure personal biases aren't impacting the decision. If we're going to alter the algorithm because we don't like the result, then why are we bothering to use an algorithm in the first place? Just use a human to make the decision. At least in that scenario potential biases have an identifiable source, as opposed to an opaque program that may have been made by engineers that deliberately tuned it to avoid any disparities because they think any disparity in outcome is fundamentally problematic