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Yeah, that's a great idea. Nobody's gonna stare at the hot chick's boobs when they've got her DNA on file! Totally scalable idea, amichall. Well, maybe in your

Yeah, that's a great idea. Nobody's gonna stare at the hot chick's boobs when they've got her DNA on file! Totally scalable idea, amichall. Well, maybe in your world it is. See, in the real world, people don't give a crap about your dna. What matters is that you are a lazy black or a slut or whatever other stereotype they want to put on you. Profiling on DNA would just give another thing to discriminate against. Go watch Gattaca sometime, kthx.

amichail 19y ago
Discrimination is a form of probabilistic reasoning in the presence of incomplete knowledge. Provide more information about the individual and discrimination will go away eventually. Companies aim to maximize their profits and it is in their best interest to hire the best people.
- inklesspen 19y ago
  Companies aim to do many things, because they are a gestalt entity. In many companies, the higher-ups aim to perpetuate an 'old-boy' network, rewarding their friends with high-paying cushy jobs. They are actually aiming to discriminate, amichall. In addition, nobody is going to sit down, go through someone's DNA sequence, and say "oh, now I have more knowledge about John Freeman. I am going to discard my prejudices against black people because I have a sequence of letters in front of me! Rational thought is so great!" No, you eliminate discrimination through education and confrontation. Each generation that mixes with other groups will discriminate less than the one that came before. In conclusion, you, sir, are either severely misinformed about the world or an idiot. Or both.
  - amichail 19y ago
    If hiring the best people means the difference between your company succeeding or failing, then maybe you will put aside your prejudices and hire the best candidate for a job. As for going through a DNA sequence, obviously you would have software to look for patterns that are beneficial to your company. The check would be automated and quick. And please, no need for ad hominem attacks.
    - inklesspen 19y ago
      That's not an ad hominem attack. I wasn't saying your argument is wrong because you don't know how the world works. I was saying your argument is wrong because of X, Y, and Z, and incidentally you don't know how the world works. Your responses continue to show that you don't know how the world works. You aren't going to find DNA patterns that are beneficial to your company. Identical twins with identical DNA can have incredibly different personalities. Humans share 94% of our DNA with chimpanzees, amichall. In conclusion, please go watch Gattaca and then go join the real world for a bit.
      - amichail 19y ago
        Well, I'm certainly not going to insult you, whether it's part of my argument or not. I may not reply to your future comments though.
      - pg 19y ago
        That's not an ad hominem attack. Technically, perhaps, but it was name-calling. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't do that.
        brlewis 19y ago
        You have to get extremely technical to claim that "either severely misinformed about the world or an idiot" is not an ad-hominem attack. Perhaps a compiler could not prove that the ad-hominem is reachable, but all us humans see it.

amichail 19y ago

Discrimination is a form of probabilistic reasoning in the presence of incomplete knowledge. Provide more information about the individual and discrimination will go away eventually. Companies aim to maximize their profits and it is in their best interest to hire the best people.

inklesspen 19y ago
Companies aim to do many things, because they are a gestalt entity. In many companies, the higher-ups aim to perpetuate an 'old-boy' network, rewarding their friends with high-paying cushy jobs. They are actually aiming to discriminate, amichall. In addition, nobody is going to sit down, go through someone's DNA sequence, and say "oh, now I have more knowledge about John Freeman. I am going to discard my prejudices against black people because I have a sequence of letters in front of me! Rational thought is so great!" No, you eliminate discrimination through education and confrontation. Each generation that mixes with other groups will discriminate less than the one that came before. In conclusion, you, sir, are either severely misinformed about the world or an idiot. Or both.
- amichail 19y ago
  If hiring the best people means the difference between your company succeeding or failing, then maybe you will put aside your prejudices and hire the best candidate for a job. As for going through a DNA sequence, obviously you would have software to look for patterns that are beneficial to your company. The check would be automated and quick. And please, no need for ad hominem attacks.
  - inklesspen 19y ago
    That's not an ad hominem attack. I wasn't saying your argument is wrong because you don't know how the world works. I was saying your argument is wrong because of X, Y, and Z, and incidentally you don't know how the world works. Your responses continue to show that you don't know how the world works. You aren't going to find DNA patterns that are beneficial to your company. Identical twins with identical DNA can have incredibly different personalities. Humans share 94% of our DNA with chimpanzees, amichall. In conclusion, please go watch Gattaca and then go join the real world for a bit.
    - amichail 19y ago
      Well, I'm certainly not going to insult you, whether it's part of my argument or not. I may not reply to your future comments though.
    - pg 19y ago
      That's not an ad hominem attack. Technically, perhaps, but it was name-calling. I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't do that.
      - brlewis 19y ago
        You have to get extremely technical to claim that "either severely misinformed about the world or an idiot" is not an ad-hominem attack. Perhaps a compiler could not prove that the ad-hominem is reachable, but all us humans see it.