| I think you're confusing race with racism. Generally speaking.. Ignoring or dismissing relevance of race is privilege for those in the majority who can trivialize something that doesn't apply to them. Apply that to models too and see how much they miss. Value can be where others might not. It's kind of like making a decision that if one group hasn't had an experience of race, it doesn't mean anyone else could have either. It also signals that if they don't see value or understanding in it, therefore there can't be any in it. It takes a truly open mind to entertain any viewpoint that isn't immediately their own. The reality is, many people live with a reality that might seem unimaginable to viewpoints like the above. I practice each day as if humanity is one family. I go out of my way to talk to every kind of person that doesn't look like me. It doesn't mean strangers talk to me, especially from the majority.. When programmers all think and look the same and grew up in the same way and places, software tends catch fewer edge cases of everyone who doesn't look like them, in areas of computer vision. If we step beyond CV, and look into hilarious things like automatic motion sensor sinks only detecting certain shades (or lack thereof) of skin. Just some food for thought, happy to chat offline too :) |