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Re:Ask HN: Any open source code/materials on predicting futu... by jjoonathan on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:08AM (#15979830)
Racism is morally wrong but not mathematically wrong. P(criminal|black) > P(criminal), but if you observe that someone has black skin and treat them poorly because of it, you've done a bad thing. It doesn't matter that you were just following Bayesian reasoning because you're still hurting someone on the basis of something they can't control.

Lady Justice doesn't wear a blindfold as a fashion accessory. Discarding information is a key factor in nearly every established system of justice / morality. Refusing to do so (i.e. "just" running a ML algorithm) places you directly at odds with society's hard-earned best practices.

Re:Ask HN: Any open source code/materials on predicting futu... by platz on Thursday December 21, 2017 @11:42AM (#15980298)
> Lady Justice doesn't wear a blindfold as a fashion accessory

I never noticed that before. Thanks for pointing this out!