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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
Math is a language for modelling things. It can be intrinsically correct, as in consistent, but that doesn't say anything about the model's actually validity.

Every choice we make is a moral choice. Once we're done modelling and use that model then we make a moral choice.

For example, If you believe that lowering the debt default rates is more important than the fairness to an individual.

Then you make a moral choice. Of you believe it is OK to not give loans to Blacks because there's a largish amount of Blacks defaulting on their loans thats a moral choice.

Further more, Enscribnng truth to models is just an age old human fallacy. The truth can somewhat fit plenty of models. None of the models are truth.