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bisectable

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    Comment #25480861

    The solution to this conundrum is to aggressively encode explicit biases into the algorithm. The only requirement is that the explicit biases favor certain demographics that are po…

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    Comment #25457841

    Almost there. Each individual comes with a distinct set of biases. Social collective action is the contextual weighted average of those individual biases. This results in quite res…

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    Comment #25457637

    See Eastern Europe, 1917-1989. It will kill the infected countries as well, but it will take a few generations for the whole enterprise to utterly collapse.

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    Comment #25457535

    How about companies operate in their local markets and we abolish multinationals?

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    Comment #25457394

    You're raising an ethics concern. Strangely, no self-styled 'ethicist' lavishly employed by BigTech appears to be interested in such a topic. It's almost as if the answer to why Bi…

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    Comment #25457140

    See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-da-fe . Questioning the righteous narrative will not be tolerated.

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    Comment #25453378

    Yugoslavia is a cautionary tale. Humans (and possibly much older than humans) have an builtin in-group / out-group mechanism which, left unchecked, leads to widespread ethnic hatre…

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    Comment #25452863

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    Comment #25327359

    The public sphere is very heavily slanted. Few people dare come out under their own name and condemn the bullying behavior of Timnit, for fear of being subjected to that very bully…

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    Comment #25322071

    Given the current public discourse climate in academia, where 99% of the researchers are politically left or extreme left, I recommend a grain of salt for any research that makes c…

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    Comment #25316751

    You've worked with a visual appearances dataset, lacking sufficient examples from one class of entities, and it failed to perform well for that class. You solved the problem by add…

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    Comment #25314594

    The entire course of action you suggest could have happened were not for Timnit going public by her own volition, accusing her employer and coworkers of unethical behavior in the p…