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Re:Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach by mellosouls on Thursday March 11, 2021 @03:15PM (#26428486)
At the risk of being censured for a "shallow dismissal", I read here a very long-winded and partial call to prioritise within a technical field the suggestions of graduates of "the university of life" over those with technical expertise ("book learning").

What it implies - as these things often do - is that those with a rationalist approach leapt somehow fully-formed into adult life without experiencing anything negative that might have helped build character and "wisdom".

Ironically, the studies it draws on that reveal bias are not "afro-feminist" folk-wisdom but people doing actual academic research.

That work in some cases may well be motivated by the researchers being from particular backgrounds - e.g. marginalised communities - and will clearly be informed by the lived experience of people from diverse backgrounds, but surely in a respectable field its worth will always be measured in what it brings to the discussion that is actually new and verifiable, not what moral-authority-by-demographic-disadvantage the researcher claims?

Re:Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach by artichokes on Thursday March 11, 2021 @04:11PM (#26429053)
Its worth is measured in the degree to which it transfers money, resources, and power from people like you to people like the author, and words arranged like those that appear in this document have proven to be an effective tool for this.