I do have double standards, and it doesn’t bother me
One standard for people I think are acting in good faith, one for people I think are acting in bad faith.
I’m not a court of law, or otherwise formally behind a veil-of-ignorance. I don’t owe the world a single standard.
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The only real discipline you need is a sense of your own power to hurt others. Outside of institutional due process contexts, it is actually really hard to hurt someone by simply refusing to deal with them. If your “bad faith standard” is disengagement you’re probably fine.
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If your bad-faith standard is active (like open hostility or quietly working to get someone blacklisted or persona non-grata on some social graph) then you have to police it harder. But it’s okay to have standards for picking actual conflicts.
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The idea of explainable or justifiable decisions is kinda dumb outside closed contexts. Which is why the explainable AI conversation is both interesting and tedious. When you want to use AI for due process contexts, it’s an interesting challenge to “blind” it to some things.
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Blinding is not explainability. You could blind a hiring algorithm to gender say, by doing statistical testing and removing inputs that provides a gender hint. That still won’t mean decisions are explainable. They;l simply be demonstrably statistically agnostic to some variable.
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Demanding a clear logical account of a decision is silly for almost everything. You shouldn’t expect it of either humans or machines most of the time. A decision is 3 things: input blinding, intuitive, classification into regimes, application of regime-specific standards.
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