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Spaced God posted:As someone who works extensively with ~the algorithm~ and someone who is fortunate enough to work with some pretty cool folks in my current gig, I had a chat about this kinda stuff a while ago. One of the points I found interesting is that a really easy and really big way to shift the narrative from "the beep boop computer decided that black people are inferior" is to tear down the concept of ~the algorithm~ entirely during explanations and instead shift the phrasing to "the people who programmed this." It sort of takes the passive self-determination of the computer out of it. coming from a background in the ~~humanities~~ before studying computer-fu, it is fascinating how hermetic the discipline is in regards to such things like, for example, the basic brickheaded attitude found even in design and analysis about sitting next to the person who you are going to develop a system for to make their work easier, and letting them tell you what are the problems and what could make it better, then the coder goes "pffft I know better" and makes a very good piece of software that works well but delivers very little in the actual intended purpose, and a lot of people don't get it (I had a colleague realizing that problem while working at a credit services software systems and he went loving ballistic - he figured out that his code, his labor, was helping people getting in debt and he left asap)
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