1. Argh. I was w/ lawyer all the way to the last sentence. Absolutely true that these algos should be public. But…https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/745704022527582209 …
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That human judgment has issues is true; but at least widely understood. Here, computation is presented as objective, neutral.
Computation has role as a tool to balance out human judgement—but this example shows its fetishization may make things worse.
Go from world of human judgment that we understand has huge problems to computerization that people treat like infallible magic?
I think “has issues” is too generous. But yes, important to admit limits of algos, allow to be examined: def want algos public. @zeynep
Yeah, be it far from me to excuse human failings, but algos just public won't solve. They have their own forms of failing.
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