RAZZISMO FREDDO

RAZZISMO FREDDO
Avete notato che ogni tanto su Amazon escono dei prezzi assurdi? Mi dicono che sono impostati da algoritmi sensibili alla “domanda” e, talvolta, persino tarati sulla tua disponibilità a pagare.
L’intelligenza artificiale sta cominciando a prenderci le misure e le aziende, sempre più spesso, adottano queste “macchine prezzatrici” dalla razionalità spietata. Le decisioni demandate alla fredda razionalità meccanicistica crescono ogni giorno, e non riguardano solo i prezzi.
Siamo giustamente preoccupati per gli algoritmi che, nel perseguire l’interesse dell’azienda, praticano la discriminazione razziale o sessuale come effetto collaterale.

Ma in questi casi è legittimo parlare di sessismo o razzismo? Sessismo e razzismo non sono forse il frutto di pregiudizi? Come possono discendere da scelte razionali non certo animate da ostilità, come quelle prese da un freddo algoritmo?

http://timharford.com/2019/03/just-because-youre-paranoid-doesnt-mean-the-algorithms-arent-out-to-get-you/

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Riccardo Mariani

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Stabilire il premio dell’assicurazione automobilistica puo’ essere un affare molto delicato, specie negli USA:

1) come clienti, afro-americani e ispanici tendono ad avere punteggi più bassi rispetto a bianchi e asiatici ma prezzarli diversamente puo’ avere delle contraddizioni.

2) L’alternativa – subottimale – è vendere assicurazioni a prezzo differenziato secondo l’area geografica. Certo, in questo modo i “buoni guidatori” che vivono in aree a più alto rischio vengono penalizzati, ma forse è giusto così.

Domanda: è più “discriminatorio” il primo o il secondo metodo?

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LA GENETICA CI RENDE NERVOSI

Quando parlando di razze o sessi si introducono le differenze innate c'è sempre qualcuno a sinistra che si innervosisce e perde la trebisonda.

Are white people genetically disposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?” tweet is not at all analogous to the Andrew Sullivan piece she was criticizing.

In fact, if you were going to make something analogous, it would go like this: “Yes, white people are genetically disposed to burn faster in the sun, but–OF COURSE–this doesn’t mean they should be treated as lesser members of society. However, it would be counterproductive to try to deny this scientific fact about their skin, giving ammunition to people who wanted to treat them differently because of biology

Potpourri https://consultingbyrpm.com/blog/2018/08/potpourri-388.html

Riccardo Mariani

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LA GENETICA CI RENDE NERVOSI

Quando parlando di razze o sessi si introducono le differenze innate c'è sempre qualcuno a sinistra che si innervosisce e perde la trebisonda.

C’è stato anche chi ha parafrasato in questo modo la posizione “pericolosa” di chi si appella alla scienza per ribadire le differenze: “poiché i bianchi sono più predisposti alle scottature solari, la loro sorte è di vivere sottoterra come i vermi”.

Tuttavia, questo non è un paradosso ma un vero e proprio errore logico, se uno avesse proprio voluto fare un parallelo avrebbe dovuto rendere la posizione "pericolosa" in questo modo: “nessuno deve vivere sottoterra come un verme ma questa non è una buona ragione per negare che le pelli bianche siano più soggette alle scottature solari”.

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Fourteen How to Read the News - More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg

Fourteen How to Read the News - More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics by Steven E. Landsburg - #nerialpostodiblocco #deterrenzaorisultati? #kansascityoneworleans? #chiusoilmercatodeipoveri #rischidiversi #co2eparcheggi #naziorazzismo

Fourteen How to Read the NewsRead more at location 2274

Note: Le tasse equalizzano le culture, specie le culture intorno al rischio. Il caso della protezione civile a New Orleans Carbon tax: la coscienza critica è un sostituto delle tasse. Se le due cose si sommano si produce inefficienza. Anche x qs sarebbe meglio tassare i parcheggi: nessuno si sente in colpa parcheggiando gratuitamente Perchè mai una CT dovrebbe finanziare progetti di energie alternative e nn una manifestaxione rock o corsi di cucina. Il benessere sociale è in fondo il vero obiettivo Dazi. Compra italiano! Ora, sostituite italiano con "bianco" Edit

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Racial ProfilingRead more at location 2280

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If you were driving along the MarylandRead more at location 2280

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Blacks were three-and-a-half times as likely as whites to be stopped and searched.Read more at location 2281

Note: NERI AL POSTO DI BLOCCO Edit

Among whites who were stopped, about one-third of one percent were caught with drugs. Among blacks who were stopped, the fraction was—almost exactly the same. Aha! So blacks and whites are equally prone to carry drugs. The police must be racists. No? Think again. Remember that blacks carried drugsRead more at location 2283

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just as frequently as whites even though they were three-and-a-half times as likely to be stopped. Imagine how many more drugs they’d have carried if they’d been treated equally!Read more at location 2286

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By that standard, it’s not blacks but Hispanics who have cause for complaint. Stopped Hispanics are only about a third as likely to be carrying drugs as stopped whites or stopped blacks. Why would the police stop a Hispanic who has a one-ninth of one percent chance of carrying drugs instead of a black or white who has a one-third of one percent chance of carrying drugs? Arguably, it’s because they have something against Hispanics.Read more at location 2301

Note: RAZZISMO VS GLI ISPANICI. TROPPI BLOCCHI RISPETTO ALLA PROB. DI ARRESTO Edit

So you might think a committed Drug Warrior would applaud a police policy of maximizing drug convictions. Think again. If you really want to retard drug traffic, you should maximize not convictions, but deterrence. And to maximize deterrence, you should probably stop more whites, because there are more whites in the population to deter.Read more at location 2312

Note: DETERRENZA E SEQUESTRI N SONO LA STESSA COSA Edit

Searching mostly blacks can be simultaneously a very good way to make lots of drug arrests and a very poor way to slow down drug traffic. That’s because it advertises to whites that they have little to fear from the police, which emboldens more whites to carry drugs. And because there are so many white people around, this effect can be quite large. After all, one-third of one percent of whites represents a lot more motorists—and a lot more drugs—than one-third of one percent of blacks.Read more at location 2315

Note: LA DETERRENZA SU BIANCHI E NERI È LA STESSA MA I BIANCHI SONO DI PIÙ Edit

fewer arrests (to appeal to the libertarians) and greater deterrenceRead more at location 2319

Note: MENO ARRESTI E PIÙ DETERRENZA Edit

Disaster ReliefRead more at location 2323

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If the government stands ready to (literally) bail out New Orleans by raising taxes in Kansas City, then New Orleans housing prices rise and Kansas City housing prices fall. You can no longer escape the risk of a flood by moving to Kansas City; you can no longer reap the benefits of accepting the full risk by moving to New Orleans.Read more at location 2335

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That’s no clear improvement for anyone. Those who preferred to accept some risk are now forced to live more expensively;Read more at location 2337

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It’s good to have cities with different cultures,Read more at location 2340

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it’s good to have cities with different musical heritages, and it’s good to have cities with different risk characteristics.Read more at location 2340

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poor people are disproportionately hurt when disaster-assistance policies make cheap housing more expensive.Read more at location 2342

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Global Warming, Local CrowdingRead more at location 2398

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Feeling guilty about your car’s contribution to global warming? Feel guilty no longer; you can buy a TerraPass. Just go to http://www.terrapass.com and use the handy calculator to determine how much money you should send in to salve your conscience.Read more at location 2399

Note: PROBLEMI DI COSCIENZA? Edit

But here TerraPass fails badly on two counts: first, it “taxes” only those who already feel guilty enough to buy a TerraPass;Read more at location 2403

Note: IL TERRAPASS TASSA SOLO I PIÙ COSCIENZIOSI Edit

Second, unlike a gas tax, the TerraPass does absolutely nothing to raise the cost of driving an additional mile—which is precisely what it must do to get incentives right. The TerraPass calculator tells me that for my make and model of car, I should pay $49.95 a year if I drive less than 20,000 miles; $79.95 a year if I drive more. As I inch up from 10,000 miles to 12,000 to 15,000, I feel no additional costs whatsoever.Read more at location 2405

Note: IL TERRAPASS INVITA A GUIDARE DI PIÙ Edit

My $49.95 might (or might not) do a lot more good backing a garage band or invested in General Electric than supporting a clean-energy project.Read more at location 2410

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My carbon-dioxide emissions cause about $50 worth of damage each year. But my parking—on public streets where I take up valuable real estate—imposes far greater costs.Read more at location 2415

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Professor Donald Shoup of UCLA, who wrote a deeply thoughtful book on the matter called The High Cost of Free Parking. Urban on-street parking is almost always underpriced, which is why you can almost never find a spot.Read more at location 2418

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It is crazy to feel guilty about dirtying the atmosphere without feeling even guiltier about clogging city streets.Read more at location 2422

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The issue is your contribution to global warming versus your contribution to urban congestion.Read more at location 2424

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we could just price parking appropriately. As Professor Shoup points out, we already pay a high price for parking; it’s just that we pay it indirectly “in our roles as consumers, investors, workers, residents, and taxpayers.”Read more at location 2432

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The New RacismRead more at location 2499

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phrases like: “Federal contracts, whenever possible, should be performed by white workers.” Politicians demanded tax incentives to reward firms for hiring whites instead of blacks.Read more at location 2500

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When I say this kind of thing was commonplace “not long ago,” I really mean not long ago. Except for one morally insignificant difference, I got all of the above from John Kerry’s Web site. The only change I made is this: where Kerry said “American,” I substituted “white.”Read more at location 2503

Note: RAZZISMO E NAZIONALISMO