3 ms·
> You cannot ask a researcher to invent a new more performant computer-vision model, invent a way to correct for bias, and design a fair dataset all in one. Tha
by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> You cannot ask a researcher to invent a new more performant computer-vision model, invent a way to correct for bias, and design a fair dataset all in one. That's three entirely different careers.
Might it not sometimes be reasonable to ask researchers in one domain to slow their roll, if researchers in a related domain are making slower progress? If I invent 10 new forms of nerve gas every year, while you invent 5 new antidotes to nerve gas every year, where does the problem lay? Solely with you, for not working fast enough? I don't think that's reasonable. Does the problem lay with me, for not inventing nerve gas antidotes? I don't think that's reasonable either, antidotes are not my specialty and I can't be expected to create them. But if I'm the one inventing new systems that become a problem for society because your domain of counter-research isn't keeping up, then I have some substantial share in that blame nonetheless.
- mirker 5y agoMost will not pass up an opportunity to keep their job or get promoted, so I think the practical answer lies elsewhere in the research pipeline.