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by dpkirchner 606 days ago
If the outcome of a system is biased against people with darker or lighter skin, it's obviously racist and should be adjusted or eliminated. It doesn't really matter what the cause of the problem is when making this determination -- we can't just say "lol sorry, some people can't get passport photos."

> Despite being in a highly-controlled purpose-built environment

Frankly it sounds like the environment was not purpose-built at all. It was built to meet insufficient standards, perhaps.

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At a certain point reality has a refletivity bias