> Humans aren’t cogs in a machine.
Humans aren't gender either. Doing gender quotas reduces candidates to their gender.
> An assumption I suspect you’re making is that we already have THE correct fitness function.
> They aren’t just trying to filter the fitness function, they’re trying to improve it.
Ohh, no. My assumption is that current hiring is not perfect, but gender quotas are waaay worse. Gender-blind hiring would be better than both.
Adding another programmer to my company would be less valuable then adding a salesperson. Similarly, adding people with diverse perspectives is more valuable then hiring only people that grew up in the same city, at our income level, with same gender, ethnicity, age, etc.
An assumption I suspect you’re making is that we already have THE correct fitness function.
They aren’t just trying to filter the fitness function, they’re trying to improve it.