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@kangaroo5383 See also "empiricism-washing"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/26/dictators-dilemma/

> This is what Patrick Ball from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group calls "empiricism washing": take a biased procedure and feed it to an algorithm, and then you get to go and do more biased procedures, and whenever anyone accuses you of bias, you can insist that you're just following an empirical conclusion of a neutral algorithm, because "math can't be racist."