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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by danielheath on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @02:35AM (#23698431)
The issue is that "fashion for minorities" is correlated with being a minority which is correlated with poverty which is correlated with high credit risk.

This makes "buys fashion for minorities" quite an accurate predictor of high credit risk, but also a profoundly racist one.

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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by unishark on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @04:05AM (#23699048)
Yes I got that. The question is whether simply discarding the overtly-race-based features from the data will be enough.
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