I remember Timnit from that Twitter thread a while back with LeCun on the subject of bias in a deep learning system. In that thread Timnit established that she

I remember Timnit from that Twitter thread a while back with LeCun on the subject of bias in a deep learning system. In that thread Timnit established that she was an "authority" and then instead of engaging on the merits in the conversation, simply said basically, "You have to submit to me because I'm the authority" and refused to offer any information of any substance ... as though she was some kind of wizard and what she knew was just way too complicated for us mortals to understand. Meanwhile, LeCun just very calmly engaged on the specific technical details about bias in Deeplearning systems. After that, Twitter just piled on LeCun and claimed he was being a "mansplainer" ... as though saying anything technical to a black woman is "mansplaining". As an engineer what would you seek to research if you wanted to reduce the bias in specific AI systems? You'd figure out how to minimize bias in the algorithms and in the data, and identify any other sources that could introduce bias, and figure out how to put controls on developers and data collectors to prevent bias ... right? Ok, now go look at what is actually discussed in AI bias papers. Sometimes I feel the emperor has no clothes and everyone just pretends like vacuous bullshit is something profound because if you criticize the papers you'll be fired or blacklisted in Silicon Valley.