i can't be arsed to dig out my login for hn so i can't use showdead and explore properly but that was definitely the day he was banned (you can see, for instance, that that's the last date he commented). i remember that specific thread and mod action being what led to him being banned permanently though.
Can you explain what is meant by a "biased data set"? Take the example Stucchio discusses in the beginning of his presentation, where a store puts anti theft devices on the goods that have the highest value of price\*shrinkage, and happens to protect instances of a product aimed at black men but not at white men. Would you call this data set of prices and theft rates "biased"? And if so, is that because the data set systematically misrepresents the world in some way? Or is it because it seemingly endorses a "racist" conclusion?
I agree it would be bad for the store to implement the policy the data would suggest, but not because there is necessarily anything wrong or unrepresentative about the data set. People seem to equivocate between "biased data set" referring to one that does not reflect reality accurately, and one that seems to suggest a course of action that would place an extra burden on minorities. These are two different things!
The store example assumes they put anti-theft devices on products for black men and not white men based on data analysis, rather than stereotypes and assumptions. Too often people start with a conclusion (from stereotypes and so on) and work backwards to come up with a data set that says what they want.
(Context: In 1934, the USA Federal Housing Association drew a red
line around black neighborhoods and told banks not to issue mortgages
there.)
That is not enough context, you piece of shit. They did it out of
pure racism, not because African-Americans were riskier clients. That
has fuck-all to do with your Hyderabad example.
Ah stucchio, author of some of the best gems the SSC subreddit ever
had to offer. I have a particular soft spot for the time he bragged
about leaving his girlfriend because her
tits weren’t big enough.
@AnechoicMedia14, avg yearly #
violent crimes with injury
This presumably being the same anechoicmedia who wants to use government
force to create a white ethnostate. Imagine citing actual white
nationalists for crime victimization numbers and presenting it as
unbiased.
Using glorious MATH (plus a handful of his own unsubstantiated
assumptions to fill in where public statistics draw a blank) he claims
that gay sex is more deadly than guns.
Why do our politicians, the media establishment, and the rest focus
all their attention on guns and completely ignore the lurking danger of
gay sex?
Oh, but wait, ye who wish to dismiss him as a mere homophobe!
I’m not pushing any policy position here…I’m just crunching numbers
and criticizing people who are unwilling to discuss relative risk
factors.
Of course he’s just an unbiased spectator, using his superior
mathematical skills to compare an apples-to-oranges situation. He’s just
pursuing this politically and emotionally charged topic as a fanciful
thought project, obviously~
At least there are some comments on the blog post that tear him a new
one.
>> -You can force people to forget true facts about you.
> Truly the most apolitical and correct way to explain the right to be forgotten.
From what I understand this isn't even how the right to be forgotten works, at least not in .nl. The law has quite a few exceptions. (For example, you can't just go to the police and say 'rm -rf all my data, lol', if there are other laws which say the data must be kept, those laws have priority or something (IANAL)).
That dude is one of the few people to be banned from HN for being too racist.
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That is not enough context, you piece of shit. They did it out of pure racism, not because African-Americans were riskier clients. That has fuck-all to do with your Hyderabad example.
Ah stucchio, author of some of the best gems the SSC subreddit ever had to offer. I have a particular soft spot for the time he bragged about leaving his girlfriend because her tits weren’t big enough.
From the slide on victimization disparity:
This presumably being the same anechoicmedia who wants to use government force to create a white ethnostate. Imagine citing actual white nationalists for crime victimization numbers and presenting it as unbiased.
Exploring further on this guy’s blog, didn’t take me long to find something sneer-able:
https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/are_gays_or_guns_more_dangerous.html
Using glorious MATH (plus a handful of his own unsubstantiated assumptions to fill in where public statistics draw a blank) he claims that gay sex is more deadly than guns.
Oh, but wait, ye who wish to dismiss him as a mere homophobe!
Of course he’s just an unbiased spectator, using his superior mathematical skills to compare an apples-to-oranges situation. He’s just pursuing this politically and emotionally charged topic as a fanciful thought project, obviously~
At least there are some comments on the blog post that tear him a new one.
Truly the most apolitical and correct way to explain the right to be forgotten.
Solving the is-ought problem ezpz. Also biased datasets don’t exist, we just don’t care about accuracy when it comes to people of color.
Can anyone explain what “San Francisco Ethics” are supposed to be?
This talk is NOT about cheerleeding.
The No True Scotsman example got a laugh out of me, ngl
You can’t optimise for two maximums!