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by eindiran 3074 days ago
Yes that helped quite a bit. Looking over that section, I thought this summarized it quite well: "For the outcome y = 1, the constraint requires that Yhat has equal true positive rates across the two demographics A = 0 and A = 1. For y = 0, the constraint equalizes false positive rates."
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Fantastic!

I thought more about your question (at least what I thought it was) and it wouldn't necessarily prevent redundant encoding but it would sort of restrict how 'damaging' such an encoding could be (if that makes sense).

This whole field is very new but very exciting and very troubling.

Like- what is fairness really? Its an intersection of philosophy/ethics and very UN-intuitive mathematics..there are many open questions