"Data" Professions - what's the shittiest

if u want to "look at the work "can" is doing" in that sentence (u can fuck off with this angry scare-quoting and bad faith sub-undergraduate "close-reading" of my posts btw) maybe read the working paper i posted that literally showed an algorithm was less racist than judges in determining whether defendants should await trial at home or in jail

fwiw i think Weapons of Math Destruction is a great book and take its warnings extremely seriously, but it absolutely has flaws and was written very "early" in this process of shifting-human-discretion-to-algorithms so a lot of future research will inevitably prove some of its concerns wrong (while also elucidating others). Cathy herself takes a similar position on it fwiw

sry didn't mean to get aggro--just, pls don't jump down my throat or read something into what i was writing that wasn't there

no worries i'm disinclined to get into an online shouting match over, well... it's a semantic argument. we don't actually disagree about anything specific here as far as i can see and there's not really a lot to talk about.