• lowleveldata@programming.dev
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    Poverty is inherited and it’s impossible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Black people in America are poor because they used to be slaves

    That’s capitalism’s fault. Poor white kids would face the same issues.

    Black people are under-represented in universities, so the university scientists building facial recognition apps aren’t building them to work on black people

    That’s just a lack of data points and not a system constructed by anyone. The data points should be increasing naturally.

    Schools teach their lessons in english. Multilingual students who don’t speak english at home often have a disadvantage in lessons that will be felt their whole lives

    It’d be awesome if we can just solve language barriers generally. Before we can do that having a single official language in working situations seems to be not avoidable for productivity.

    Children of illegal immigrants may have never received identification such as a birth certificate and it can be hard to get this as an adult

    Not related to racism.

    Whenever the police use robotic and computer systems to detect criminals the AI ends up racial profiling and harassing black people

    Is this happening? I think it’s straight out wrong to predict criminals with AI trained on previous data.

    All in all I agree that many of the existing systems sucks but I don’t think it’s helpful to link every problem to racism. Disclaimer: I’m not black or white

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      That’s just a lack of data points and not a system constructed by anyone. The data points should be increasing naturally.

      But why is the data lacking in the first place?

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        Lack of public black faces as suggested by previous comment? That’s not a “system” tho, which would imply something like a policy to reject black faces as learning data.

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      That’s capitalism’s fault. Poor white kids would face the same issues.

      True, but that’s not what the discussion was about. Black kids are disproportionately poorer than white kids, and that’s because they inherited inequalities from the past, which came about because of slavery and systematic racism.

      It’d be awesome if we can just solve language barriers generally. Before we can do that having a single official language in working situations seems to be not avoidable for productivity

      What you are suggesting is a lingua franca, which is already the norm in multilingual countries. That’s quite different from having a colonial language dominating over the others.

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        Lingua franca is a language that 2 groups speaking a different language both understand, English is a lingua franca.

        It makes sense to teach in 2 languages when bit percentages of the population speak them, in the case of America teaching native American language would be pointless for the children aside from preventing the language from dying