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by dragonwriter 3549 days ago
> Given data on the biasing factor, most algorithms will try to use it and improve things.

Unless the bias is in what they are designed to optimize for (either because the goal is explicitly biased or because the operationalization of the goal into a concrete measure is, whether intentionally or not, biased), in which case they will obviously reinforce it.