This is one of those "Why we need the liberal arts" moments.https://twitter.com/frankpasquale/status/878367783217659904 …
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@pboothe says that these folks trained their AI on data where criminal photos were mugshots and non-criminal ones were corporate photos.)
Perhaps this paper, despite bravely publishing heresy, is wrong. But I bet most condemning it do so b/c it's heresy, not b/c it's wrong.
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It is not actually a coincidence that "condemning the heresy" turned out to be right. Many orthodoxies encode valuable heuristics.
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It is *reasonable* to demand greater care and stronger evidence for claims that match patterns known to have often led to mistakes before.
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Sure. But the general pattern also supports the idea that standards required for claims related to recent disasters tend to be unreasonable
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Well, those standards would have helped these folks dodge a collection of humiliating and harmful blunders in this case.
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And what makes systemic racism & similar bias a "recent disaster" rather than a "consistent pattern of cognitive bias throughout history"?
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Recent disasters like the Holocaust, the eugenics movements, and slavery distort rational evaluation of any vaguely associated topic.
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Your response baffles me. If I broaden "the Holocaust" to "ethnic genocide in general", all of your examples are as old as humanity.
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The only "recent" part is society as a whole disapproving of them. And now you want to water down that disapproval!
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