Fair point that can just as easily, and more urgently, be inverted: why don't those building AI for $subject actually engage with the foundational $subject literature? Including the histories of ethics, discrimination, etc in $subject domain...https://twitter.com/jackclarkSF/status/997512143695241217 …
In the world of engineers and scientists, facts are the things that are true. That is why the idea that we should also impose things that are not facts sounds disturbing.
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For sure & I see how this is an impediment. But arent the foundations of soc science/humanities also taught at schools? Even newspapers make it clear how soc processes cannot be distilled to facts. At least soc scientists except the premises of tech even if they don't read it :P
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Did you notice that governments are not formed by social scientists? Would you think that is a failure of governance or social science? I suspect the field is still fundamentally broken.
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