This empty snark would make more sense if you weren't commenting on machine learning, where the problem is emergent discrimination unintended by the designers --- in other words, discrimination that isn't chosen.
As it stands, all you've done here is reveal to the thread that you don't understand why discrimination is a concern with machine learning, but you have very strong feelings about it anyways. Congratulations? Good talk?
While unintended discrimination emerging from machine learning techniques is a very important problem that needs to be addresses, it's also important to remember that practices such as "redlining" show that there is still an unfortunate amount of intentional discrimination. The complexity of machine learning creates a lot of opportunity to hide intentionally biased features.
I think he means something that I quoted in an AirBnb thread a 73 days ago (shameless self-quoting)
Whenever you
- book a flight,
- buy bread or milk, or
- get a girl friend
you discrimate in favor of one and against all others.
Subjective discrimination is the only way to choose, discrimination is the sure consequence of your every choice.
