Ok, fine but... Understanding bias isn't what engineers are trained to do. It's not just running a few correlations.pic.twitter.com/Me8b2yWk39
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We see this often: a terribly easy to see complication to business model is ignored for years, then a team of engineers tasked after outcry.
Truth is, there *are* a lot of things companies CAN do easily to help solve this, and then there are a lot of hard problems in this space.
do you think it is possible for the engineers to 'root out bias'? Isn't the bias coming from the users, not the system?
Easy to predict, easy to test, impt issue. Took yrs before anyone did. Sounds like a comment on soc sci incentive structure, too.
I know the answer is implicit, but: because there are things that are on the critical path to exit/ipo, and things that are not.
Yep. And that speaks to priorities..
why presume they didn't see? It's very likely that public outcry motivated changes, not a sudden revelation of an unforeseen problem
speaks to priorities..
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They probably saw it, thought "I don't know how to solve it and still grow fast" so did nothing until it was the growth bottleneck
I've seen the similar logic justifying bad management, sexual harassment, poor communications, and even basic process training
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