Board the ship, then pull up the ladder

I had a promising career option at my workplace. Guess what field it would have put me in… Sigh.

Don’t you know that the solution to any and all problems with AI just need more training data to fix? If we can teach it to be just a little more human, it’ll surely stop going off the rails. We just need to feed the machine more data More Data MORE DATA MORE DATA

the chances of each one in fact being a violent criminal are vastly different.

Reducing people to chances based on a single factor is deeply dehumanising. The statistics aren’t wrong; the interpretation and application is.

But that’s how it is, there is nothing you or I can do about it.

Individually, we can’t do a whole lot. But we can do our part to break that cycle, to treat people as people and stop normalising or excusing racism.

Yes, that divide exists and is reinforced by the identities tied to the status within those relics of a segregation that was never effectively dismantled.

Discriminatory policing isn’t gonna help with that divide. Being prejudiced by someone’s ethnicity has nothing to do with statistics. Humans aren’t numbers or probabilistic distributions. We’re individuals that deserve being judged by our actions, not the colour of our skin. My white isn’t inherently more or less criminal than someone else’s black.

Leaning on statistics to justify the actions that reinforce the root causes of those statistics is circular logic. It’s not a valid justification for prejudice.

You mean whether a people trapped in poverty, deprived of perspectives, desperate and frustrated by the injustice that continues to be done to them, develops a culture of violence?

Yeah. Probably. That’s what centuries of slavery, segregation and wealth-gating social mobility will do to people: they get stuck in a cycle of poor conditions harming childhood development, leading to ill-adjusted adults struggling to get or hold good jobs, some of which will resort to other ways of making money.

https://www.apa.org/pi/ses/resources/publications/violence

https://www.opencrime.us/analysis/crime-and-poverty

Pretending it’s a racial issue or a culture of violence is only half the truth. The other half is that it’s an economic issue arising from a history of treating them as second-class citizens at best, at worst basing your entire government on the conviction “that slavery subordination to the superior race is [the black man’s] natural and normal condition” and going to war over it.

Then it would be the new CEO’s duty to likewise object to unethical instructions.

Mind, I’m not saying the board shouldn’t be held responsible. I’m saying the CEO is still complicit, even if he’s “just following orders”.

Unfortunately, yes.

A machine trained on human decisions isn’t gonna make better decisions, and I’m not aware that a sufficiently advanced machine reasoning from principles instead of correlations exists yet. So as it stands, the best we can do is try to minimise the problematic aspects of humanity.

It’s not a good solution, just the less bad one.

According to that lawsuit and our sources, Dolan’s head of corporate security takes such an expansive view of his mission that his employees will functionally cosplay as cops—patrolling the neighborhood, snooping on protesters if they happen to be in the area. You don’t have to enter a Dolan venue to be under his watch.

Sooooo basically ICE painted corporate? Fuck MSG security and every cunt that voluntarily works for them and tells themselves this is fine.

This is more of a NIABY: Not in anyone’s back yard.

Nah, these facts are not the issue. Omitting that the statistics themselves are the result of discrimination is kinda negligent though.

The solution wouldn’t be to try to balance out a bias in a fundamentally flawed dataset, but to establish a human system of decisionmaking that’s resilient to prejudice and bias instead of relying on machines that can only imitate their makers’ mistakes.

Because the executives are carrying them out (or instructing others in carrying them out) and thus complicit. By rights, they should be objecting to those decisions and refusing to do (or order) unethical or unconscionable things.