That it is,we dont yet live in a world s.t. conditioning on superficial traits is uninformative. The world's not randomly going to get there
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @CarnunMP
The world will get there by treating people as individuals, not as members of a racial group.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @CarnunMP
That's coarse graining! If level of policy gains nothing from specifying the tree to a greater depth,then pointless waste of energy to do so
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In fact, often intractable to do so in reality.
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Replying to @sir_deenicus @CarnunMP
Coarse-graining is a flashy analogy, but a false one. We're talking about people, not atoms. And people are naturally tribalist, and need to be prevented from becoming too tribal so they don't slaughter each other. Intersectionality entrenches racial divisions - and prejudices.
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Replying to @G_S_Bhogal @CarnunMP
Not at all false. Predicting means you can scale the level of precision with which you specify detail. Often counterproductive 2 overspecify
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Tribalism <> admitting that conditioning on certain attributes informative enough to form useful clusters for targeting things to improve
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Aside: From my perspective, often called intersectionality is really just another way of talking about joint probabilities.
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Eg some event: getting job. Person has attr a,b,c. Intersectnality interested in how queries 4 p(job) condition on interaction between a,b,c
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Ideal world = no conditioning. Not ideal world. Therefore think it's strawman to paint this as tribalism.
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I don't agree for the reasons I already stated, but you have an interesting POV, so thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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