So lately again I've seen the usual ancap suspects ridiculing the idea of "racist algorithms" as if ppl are uneducated about what "algorithm" means... 1/N
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I'd like to flip that and suggest maybe the critics are uneducated about what "racist" means, not just for algorithms but humans. 2/N
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Racist doesn't mean only "I hate people on the basis of race" but rather reproducing and perpetuating the racial biases you were fed as inputs from the systems you learned within. 3/N
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And that is precisely what [linear, or any] regression does: interpolate/extrapolate from the biases it's fed. 4/N
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