Constrained optimization is great and probably helpful but calling it a path to fairness misses what makes something fair. Fairness is not a result, it is a pr

Constrained optimization is great and probably helpful but calling it a path to fairness misses what makes something fair. Fairness is not a result, it is a process. Any time people come with a model they made in a closed room that is going to make important decisions for or about other people fairness is impossible. Fairness is the ability to appeal decisions, fairness is taking part in building the model, fairness is voting on whether the model is suitable and giving consent before your data can be fed to the model in development or production. Optimization strategies can not achieve any of these things. We're not a little numerical tweak from fairness.