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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.
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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.