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by yummyfajitas 3483 days ago
Not only that, there are impossibility theorems that say you can't meet everyone's definition of "nondiscriminatory" except in a few trivial cases.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.05807v1.pdf

I.e. every algorithm will be "discriminatory" unless you predictor is perfect (i.e. gets 100% of decisions right). It's just a question of which kind of discriminatory they are. The same is true of any human decision process.

Unfortunately this means that we will be subjected to a slew of innumerate reporters posting "XXX is discriminatory" articles, regardless of how decisions are made.