Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
by throwaway894345 on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:15PM
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But is this only because they lacked a theoretical understanding of genetics (including an understanding of which combinations of genes that express the features that we attribute to race, which we still presumably lack by-and-large) and sequencing technology?
Re:AI Recognises Race in Medical Images
by runako on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @12:35PM
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> which combinations of genes that express the features that we attribute to race
If an arbitrarily large grouping of genotype combinations is necessary to categorize people, perhaps that categorization scheme is not useful? I would imagine that the number of "races" generated via the mechanism you posit would measure in the hundreds or thousands, rendering it unrelated in practice to the word "race" as it is used.
Racial segregationists in the Americas literally had to write laws delineating races based on factors external to that individual (e.g. their parentage). That is: even people who believed in a racial hierarchy also believed it was not possible to objectively identify a person's race without knowing e.g. the races of that person's parents.
Race has never been considered a generally observable fact about a person.