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Re: Redlining
At 10:38 PM -0600 12/11/96, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>Timothy C. May wrote:
>> At 5:07 PM -0600 12/11/96, Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
>> >Correlation is not an evidence of discrimination, at least to me.
>> >
>>
>> Nor is it to me. So neither of us will likely object to the neural
>> net-based lending programs which feed in a bunch of applicant data points,
>> train the net by providing feedback on who repaid their loans and with what
>> complications, etc. Even if such nets end up rejecting
>> "otherwise-qualified" (a la your other post) applicants in such a way that
>> the accept/reject ratios appear strongly correlated with certain
>> ethnicities?
>My readings on neural nets made an impression that they are not
>necessarily good at all.
>
Hardly my point, Igor.
Oh well, I guess it's pointless.
--Tim May
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