Chris Gioran 💔Techbros: Here's the detailed technical plans for a working Torment Nexus.
Everyone: Building a Torment Nexus is a horrible idea.
Techbros: Why won't people focus on the technical merits of the proposal.
Rachel@chrisg I saw a wild exchange on here recently that went like this:
Person: racist tech is bad and we should not make racist tech
Techbro: the code/model isn't racist, it's the training data that only includes a narrow sunset of people so everything is fine!
Everyone else: ....... Ok so that is still pretty bad, you see that, right?
Techbro: Nope. Please only consider how the algo could maybe have been been used in a less racist way
emberquill 
@transitory @chrisg Oh, I think I saw that exchange too! And yes, I was one of the people thinking "That does not refute the point. It barely even shifts the blame."
@transitory That problem is everywhere.
These people don't understand that technology is political. What problems we think are important enough to solve, how we solve them etc these are political decisions. And it's inconvenient for them, because 1) it's hard to think about these things and they are not that smart and 2) it bites into the bottom line,
Just Boby