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Re:Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions by dry_soup on Friday November 01, 2019 @05:40AM (#21417281)
To quote one Maciej Cegłowski, "Machine learning is money laundering for bias".
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Re:Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions by noneeeed on Friday November 01, 2019 @10:43AM (#21419343)
That's a lovely and succinct way of putting it.

I really dislike the way so many companies are pushing ml based systems as some kind of scientific, perfect, measure for difficult human problems like recruitment.

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Re:Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions by ayidnelm on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:23AM (#21417693)
It's a good line, what is the context / source for that quote?
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Re:Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions by polm23 on Friday November 01, 2019 @07:49AM (#21417792)
https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/744595961217835008

His talks, particularly about superintelligence and automation, are also relevant.

https://idlewords.com/talks/

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Re:Stop Explaining Black Box Models for High Stakes Decisions by dry_soup on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:18AM (#21417960)
polm23 mentioned that this is from a talk by Maciej (idlewords on HN), I think the particular talk is this one:

https://idlewords.com/talks/sase_panel.htm

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