billy_beef

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by billy_beef 8y ago
> Then I would say racial bias is not the same as racism. You can not really blame the people who developed those tools for not being surrounded by people of all races, or for the use case of, say, white people. It's not a malicious
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by billy_beef 8y ago
Without the data, I have a hard time believing this. Especially since I had to explain the concept. Even if that were the case, you're still left with a small set of conclusions about race and its correlation to FICO score. 1) Non-whit
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by billy_beef 8y ago
My point is not about Facebook's algorithm at all. My point is about the reactions to claims about it vs this claim about algorithms Many commenters here seem to be frustrated by the suggestion that an algorithm could be tuned to creat
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by billy_beef 8y ago
Yes, if the data contains proxies for race and/or unexamined racialized bias, then yes it can. Police presence has often been kept higher in zipcodes with mostly non-white residents. This results in higher arrest rates in an area becau
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by billy_beef 8y ago
It's very telling that claims that Facebook's newsfeed algorithm under-samples conservative publications do not receive nearly as much criticism as claims that algorithms propagate racialized bias receive.
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by billy_beef 8y ago
> Iirc there are even physical reasons why it is more difficult to identify black faces than white faces. Is that then racist, if an algorithm struggles more with identifying black faces? Unless there is some physics based reason it is o
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by billy_beef 8y ago
you should ignore that comment, it's an incredibly disingenuous claim intended to mask the racist sentiment that 'non-white people are over-represented in american prison populations because they don't value not being in pris