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Any heuristic will have varying effects with respect to different groups of individuals, regardless of what property individuals are being grouped by. It's abs
by CryptoPunk 7y ago
Any heuristic will have varying effects with respect to different groups of individuals, regardless of what property individuals are being grouped by.
It's absolutely irrelevant whether the heuristic is unfair to individuals of a particular race, or unfair to individuals of a particular nose length. Prioritizing the former over the latter is a totally arbitrary value system that deprioritizes the most important metric for maximizing fairness, which is the overall accuracy rate.
Ultimately any inaccuracy of the heuristic is an instance of the heuristic treating someone unfairly. The objective should be to minimize the inaccuracy rate overall, not the inaccuracy rate in relation to politically prioritized groupings like race.