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What's the chance that a black engineer on an ML team doing work like this isn't also from the 'corporate(or educated) class'. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
by jcims 6y ago
What's the chance that a black engineer on an ML team doing work like this isn't also from the 'corporate(or educated) class'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23697472
Black cops shoot black men all day long. I don't see why black ML folks are going to be completely immune to all of the pressures that have allowed the domain to get to its current state. While I'm sure many would accept the challenge, it's waaay too much to ask or expect of them.
Yes absolutely this issue needs diverse perspectives and the priorities they bring, but it will fail without objective standards to ensure that technology in the field reliably meets our expectations.
- mlyle 6y ago> Yes absolutely this issue needs diverse perspectives and the priorities they bring, but it will fail without objective standards to ensure that technology in the field reliably meets our expectations. It sounds like we mostly agree. It certainly doesn't hurt to have someone who's been the subject of unfair profiling before to get his spidey sense going at the implications of the system, but it isn't a cure-all.
- jcims 6y agoYep!