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I don't agree that "fair" is inherently subjective. There are many sensible ways to objectively define fair. For example you could say HN ranking is "fair" if t
by mgraczyk 4y ago
I don't agree that "fair" is inherently subjective. There are many sensible ways to objectively define fair. For example you could say HN ranking is "fair" if the probability any viewer would upvote that article is independent of its position-history on HN. That is an objective definition that is "fair" with respect to positions.
This and other notions of "fairness" are very common problems in ranking (I used to rank things on Instagram) that have to be addressed, even if you're only doing content based ranking.
- JohnFen 4y ago"Fair" is inherently subjective because, in a vacuum, everyone has a subjective definition of the word. It can legitimately mean many different things, after all. People will choose the definition they read it as according to their own subjective experiences. I reacted poorly to the use of the word "fair" here, too, because I didn't see how "fairness" really entered into it. Naturally, you can provide a specific definition of the word to make it objectively measurable, but if you use a word before you've said what your definition is, people are going to use the common definition -- and therefore, it's subjective.
- mistermann 4y agoThe word "is" is also subjective in this context, since "subjective" is not a binary.