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6y ago
Almost there. Each individual comes with a distinct set of biases. Social collective action is the contextual weighted average of those individual biases. This results in quite resilient societies: at equilibrium individual biases balance e
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6y ago
How about companies operate in their local markets and we abolish multinationals?
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6y ago
You're raising an ethics concern. Strangely, no self-styled 'ethicist' lavishly employed by BigTech appears to be interested in such a topic. It's almost as if the answer to why BigTech hires a certain brand of loudmouth
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6y ago
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-fe . Questioning the righteous narrative will not be tolerated.
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Yugoslavia is a cautionary tale. Humans (and possibly much older than humans) have an builtin in-group / out-group mechanism which, left unchecked, leads to widespread ethnic hatred. It doesn't take much to prime the bomb besides
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6y ago
The public sphere is very heavily slanted. Few people dare come out under their own name and condemn the bullying behavior of Timnit, for fear of being subjected to that very bullying, which has drastic real life consequences. The letter de
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6y ago
Given the current public discourse climate in academia, where 99% of the researchers are politically left or extreme left, I recommend a grain of salt for any research that makes claims racial discrimination. The report you quote has at lea
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You've worked with a visual appearances dataset, lacking sufficient examples from one class of entities, and it failed to perform well for that class. You solved the problem by adding more example of that class. While the malfunction m
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The entire course of action you suggest could have happened were not for Timnit going public by her own volition, accusing her employer and coworkers of unethical behavior in the process, and encouraging sympathetic colleagues to apply exte