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The narrative on these things change so fast it leaves my head spinning. I thought the algorithms were touted as being less racist than the system that was in
by tha0xb 6y ago
The narrative on these things change so fast it leaves my head spinning.
I thought the algorithms were touted as being less racist than the system that was in place. Isn't ripping these algorithmic systems out just reverting back to the old system?
- Yetanfou 6y agoThe best way to handle this is to ignore any headline which claims something is some form of -ist or -ism. Like Betteridge's Law of Headlines [1] states that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered with 'no' there could be a corollary of -ism and -ist which states that any headline which claims something is -ist or promotes -ism is most likely false. While this will cause a few false positives these are dwindled by the sheer mass of false claims which are published daily. False positives can be handled by changing the headline to exclude the -ism/-ist, in this case it could be "An evaluation of predictive policing" or "Predictive policing not the correct approach" or something along those lines. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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