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I have read her book and I'm not sure she understands the issue other than it pushes all the right buttons. Math is not racist or sexist or transphobic. The t

I have read her book and I'm not sure she understands the issue other than it pushes all the right buttons. Math is not racist or sexist or transphobic. The training data might be, but we are the training data. A search engine or AI telling us the the collective we of the internet are should really come as no surprise. We need to change us before we look for a way to change math. To be clear, these results are a perhaps uncomfortable reflection of who we are not a failing of AI.

hirundo 5y ago
> a perhaps uncomfortable reflection of who we are not a failing of AI It is a natural response to an uncomfortable reflection to blame the mirror. If only I can find the right fun-house mirror, I can forget about this annoying diet. That's akin to limiting Google's AI training data in such a way that it does not assume that the internet is still largely about porn. We can change Google's search results to reflect less of our racism and misogyny. That would be about as effective at reducing bigotry as the fun-house mirror is at reducing obesity.