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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.@bbbozzz.bsky.social |
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Twitter escapee and tech leader posting about systemic racism, systemic sexism, and intersectional -isms in relation to AI, technology, and policy. Opinions my own. Please follow / amplify. #EndSystemicRacism #EndSystemicSexism
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Also, the people claiming it’s more centrists and not leftists count about as well as in 2016 when Bernie lost by 3 million votes and so many insisted he got more votes. Innumeracy is a big reason we are here.
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The fact they so many tried to skip past without even a moment’s discussion is a pretty big tell. It’s not just criticizing Biden; it’s dissing Black candidates, Black voters, and their allies in every presidential election.
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Wait, if he’s a royalist, shouldn’t your dog be celebrating since the intent of the Founders to have a king more powerful than the British has been restored?? One not “above the law” but by divine right “the law???” Don’t tell me your dog believes the radical leftist Magna Carta???
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This is completely in line with the Times’ current campaign to annul the results of the primary elections.
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In large sample, some predictions will be uncannily accurate. See you in five days. Just kidding this is impressive and they do great work.
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Gross post, man.
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In a dictatorship, nobody is set for life but the dictator for life, and maybe not even the dictator.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Trumoies like Lin Wood threatened him with arrest and execution on January 5 and 6, 2021 if he didn’t roll over and go along. Judges often write things they don’t believe as autocracy and dictatorship takes hold. Personally, I think he’s all in anyway.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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K, time for an unfollow. As I said, if you allow appeals to ageism as legitimate, then you allow appeals to racism or homophobia as legitimate. I’m sorry to see that you were one of those people and it means I’ve lost complete confidence in anything you have to say.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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And wants to subject him to a military tribunal with no due process. Back in December, 2020, he issued an executive order to allow executions by firing squad,
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Then allowed them to reenslave them. At least Stevens and his crew fought that.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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It’s a transcription error. Sunsk was talking about eating Sandwichers, Jonathan Swift style.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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People should watch the debate with an open mind. If they have open eyes that aren’t filled with prejudice and stupidity about what healthy old people are like, they’ll realize that it’s all BS.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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The problem isn’t age. He’s fine. The debate didn’t show any significant degree of cognitive decline. People are just pushing this because they want to do what’s happened in four of the last five presidential elections — Democrats trying to erase the results of the primaries.
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Also, the “concerns” over years are really, just a long-term agitprop campaign, perpetrated by the political horseshoe of right wing and left-wing people. People had their expectations fulfilled, but the debate doesn’t support any of the wild claims being made. Your grievance doesn’t address that.
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The whole country is going to suffer because old people are shut away or separate themselves, so others have little to know experience with what a healthy old person looks like. so when they see an old person, they think how they look or sound is an indicator of cognitive capacity. It’s BS.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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The gerontocracy point has merit, though not where Biden is concerned, considering that his presidency has been the most successful in young progressives, interest, and priorities of probably any president. This is a textbook case of ageism, one of the few remaining socially acceptable prejudices.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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No, the problem of gerontocracy is separable from whether Biden has or does not have cognitive capacity. Are you doing the generational agitprop thing and rather than seeing the textbook prejudice in people who have no knowledge of Biden’s cognitive condition opining as if they are experts.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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I realize you don't check email, but please do. It should be possible for people who believe all groups are equal to raise issues and propose opportunities without being intermediated or put at risk by people who oppose ideas of equality even as they wrap their work in those trappings.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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I am sure none of the people you worked with on this or otherwise would want their body of work to be applied in ways that inadvertently add to disparities on race, gender, ethnicity, and so on. Many practitioners are untrained on how to avoid that, are unsympathetic, or may do so on purpose.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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The body of work you and others have done could easily be adapted to include this in scope in non-discriminatory ways, formally and explicitly. Features that now exclude this scope (misinterpretation of the confusion matrix) could be adapted. Same with things like definitions of incidents.
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One thing I know for certain is that much of the work billed as socially progressive rules well-informed, non-discriminatory equity perspectives out of scope. That means impact on disparities is out of scope. And those are the larger set of social problems and harms.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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So any approach or framework that doesn't provide space for equity perspectives to identify risks (as distinct from fairness) and harms by default rules equity critiques out of scope, just as was done in foundational work on ML fairness. I'm not saying this paper does that; I don't know.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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There is also the likelihood that Gen AI will embed subtler forms of neutrality that neither bias nor HAP take in scope. It's actually pretty easy to get Gen AI to produce content much like that of Charles Murray or Arthur Jensen. That hard part is getting that taken as a red teaming item.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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But bias and HAP filtering are not enough to address equity concerns if a model will be used by default to guide an end to end process for conceiving of and classifying people in protected groups and their intersections - from design to requirements to testing to code to deployment and monitoring.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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So for example, in red teaming the main areas of potential harm in the equity scope seem to be bias and HAP. But often the specified tests we are to prove ("prove a group is characterized as inferior") having nothing to do with the systemic concerns. The systemic concerns are out of scope.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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If a framework can't straightforwardly address impact on disparities (as distinct from disparate performance or neutrality for different groups), and if the impact of the features of the framework seems to exclude disparities as a consideration, that seems like an area that needs exploration.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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With every framework that comes out, with others I work with, I look for features that would provide transparency, accountability, and explainability over the impact of the model plus system and framework on systemic disparities. Ostensible neutrality in the system as a whole is the concern.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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So this shows up differently for binary classification fairness, but it also presumably should show up in Generative AI both directly and indirectly given that Gen AI is so often used for what amounts to classification and decision making or funnels toward those things.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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I'm encouraged to see 3.3 on disparate performance, but I'm unclear on how this relates to impact on systemic disparities. This is distinct from bias and presumably also distinct from metrics on disparate performance. It's long been known that neutral performance metrics can amplify disparities.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Also highly relevant. The whole thread is great. I'm surprised Blight, who I usually like, didn't realize the implications of handling it this way with Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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So ... Jackson put up a big post with screenshots disagreeing with his statements about the debate and pointing to his rampant ageism, and used that to accuse me of being a Trumpy. For the record, he checked my LinkedIn and moments later, rather than apologize, he just blocked.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Another option is to be on guard for people like Jackson, who makes shit up on the basis of their own paranoia. It’s a fact that he made up then I’m a Trumpy. That’s easily confirmed by anyone who wants to take a look.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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You are the troll. You’re the one making up lies about a longtime Democrat. Just as your presenting a dishonest picture about what happened to the debate. People should watch with an open mind. They’ll see an old person who talks like old people do. That doesn’t mean anything about his cognition.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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This is offensive as hell. If you’re an honest person, you will apologize once you confirm your lie. Thus far, you’ve doubled down on the basis of nothing but your own paranoia. You seem to think that everyone who watches the debate is going to think Biden is senile. I found the exact opposite.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Hey if you want my LinkedIn and Facebook going back many years, all you gotta do is go look. I said you are grossly exaggerating what happened in the debate and that it is a product of ageism and agitprop about Biden, being old, and your reaction is to call me a Trumpy. You prove your dishonesty.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Offensive as hell to call people who have spent years opposing trumpism trumoies. Dishonest as can be.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Hey Jackson. You are proving yourself to be a dishonest person. Go right ahead. You really shouldn’t just make up things about people because they disagree with you. I watched the debate and my position is your exaggerating. I am a lifelong Democrat. Now you’re saying I’m a Trumpy. That’s offensive.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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I’d rather have people just watch the debate and see how dishonest you’re being about what happened.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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You’re saying you have some knowledge about Biden’s cognitive capacity. If a doctor made these claims on this evidence. They could lose their medical license in some places. You don’t know anything about the state of Biden’s cognitive capacity. Textbook case of Dunning Krueger.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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You can find my Facebook post going back to 2008. Rather than deal with the points that I made about what actually happened in the debate and the rampant ageism that has gone unchecked for years, you make up yet another lie. And now you double down on it.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Doubling down on your lie. You’re a dishonest person. Go look at who I am and what my political positions are. I watch the debate. You just spouting a bunch of ageist bullshit. What you said happened in the debate didn’t. Now someone disagrees with you and you make up lies about them.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Notice that I didn’t make up anything about you. I said you’re wrong and that you’re being dishonest. You on the other hand made up a straight up lie about me supposedly being a Trumpy. I take exception. You’ve shown yourself yourself to be dishonest. You’ve shown you won’t check facts.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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It is 100% the case that you just lied and called me a Trumpy. That is the thing you made up. My politics are easy to find. Go to my LinkedIn look back years. Look at my Facebook. You find it easy to lie. Who is sewing discord? You’re proposing to toss the nominee.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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FFS, go to my LinkedIn. Look me up. Look at everything I’ve ever said. You’re massively exaggerating what happened in the debate. People should watch the debate for themselves.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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No, you are making claims about the debate that aren’t true. I’m critical of people who are lying about the debate whether or not they support Harris. Harris is against what you’re doing.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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Since 2008, we’ve had one presidential election where Democrats didn’t make a concerted effort to undermine the outcome of the primaries. Hillary did it, Bernie backers did it 20 and 2020 and now it’s happening again and we want to complain about January 6. You are grossly exaggerating, the debate.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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What is happening here is it your rendition of debate doesn’t match the reality that people will see if they watch it with a fair mind. That’s what’s happening. I’m just pointing out the anti-Democratic tendencies that underlie this.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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No, this is me telling you that the claims about the debate are false. Where did you get your degree in gerontology or is it neurology? you watched a debate and didn’t like the performance and after years of ages agitprop, you look at an old person and you think they don’t have all their marbles.
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Boz Handy Bosma, Ph.D.
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The large majority of people pushing this are proposing to skip past Harris. This is the fourth election in five in which Democrats have made a concerted effort to subvert the will of the voters after the primary. And we want to complain about January 6. You’re spouting ageist bullshit.
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