• Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Computer programs don’t inherently remove bias. If anything, they obfuscate it.

    That’s incorrect. I could make a completely fair state map with ArcGIS, voter data & about a week’s time. It’s the people working the software that are the problem.

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      2 days ago

      Assuming you have a definition of fairness that actually makes sense, that’s great. Now have a few thousand other people come in with other maps, claiming theirs are fairer than yours. What do you do then?

      It’s not a technology problem. It’s a political one.

      And while you’re at it, maybe consider dumping ESRI and using something like QGIS instead.