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Looking forward to the next post, and glad that the author is working on this problem from a technical perspective! These issues are becoming highly important t
by infinity0 11y ago
Looking forward to the next post, and glad that the author is working on this problem from a technical perspective! These issues are becoming highly important to society, but vague sociological and political accusations can be made from any viewpoint. Although they can help guide and inspire our research, it's unsustainable to depend on such imprecise concepts in the long run. Objective and neutral precise mathematical knowledge, that directly addresses these social issues instead of waving it away as technically irrelevant, is the only way to make progress in this area.
- dllthomas 11y agoI don't entirely disagree, but I urge caution. When we're designing an algorithm, there are things we care about. We try to capture these intuitions with imprecise labels like "fair". Trying then to capture these labels in "precise mathematical knowledge" still leaves room for the mathematical formulation to disagree with the intuition as well as the intuition to itself be faulty in terms of tending to lead to the outcomes we want. In either case we could easily wind up unambiguously and effectively optimizing for the wrong thing.