kunaFor future reference
SotuandusoI’m curious how many “revolutionary new technologies” only work for cis white dudes. Like maybe it’s just my privilege speaking, but there has to be a pretty narrow field where that’s even relevant, right?
Does it apply to much more than just AIs trying to recognize or replicate human appearances?
sc_griffithanything you might see in say weapons of math destruction. of course every technology was new once so you could also look at things like the many descendants of phrenology (take your favorite intelligence test) or various pain scales
Pain scales?
by that I mean various methods of talking to or examining people and determining how much pain they’re in. in principle there is no reason pain scales ought not to work for women and black people. but in fact they don’t, because the tests don’t exist in a vacuum. health care practitioners interpret them in a staggeringly prejudiced way, no matter how sophisticated and evidence based they are