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>>rapnie+(OP)
Cool article.

>>pcdood+zc
In a similar vein, by the same author: https://www.mathwashing.com/

(It's linked at the bottom of this one, but I'm sure a lot of people don't get that far)

>>paulgb+ee
It takes years and years of training in advanced dialectic bullshit to get to the point where you can say, with a straight face, that math is morally wrong. It's utterly absurd to demand that we censor models and worsen their output to conform to some activist's idealized imagine of how the world should be. Only by letting models report the true facts of the world as it is can we optimize for human happiness.

>>quotem+ri
It's not the math, that is wrong. The math is correct.

The inputs and assumptions made by the people selecting the math is the 'morally wrong' part.

Bias is real, like it or not. Your worldview, as a data scientist or programmer or whatever, impacts what you select as important factors in 'algorithm a'. Algorithm a then selects those factors for other people in the system, baking in your biases, but screening them behind math.