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I will not, but I also didn't begin by introducing the tinder - he did.

"USC/Google team used computer vision tools to identify gender bias in modern cinema" is waving a flag for a specific political belief that is not shared by most Westerners. Outside of the valley this is fringe stuff.

The appropriate equivalent to this would be a right winger expressing concern at the 'appropriateness' of race mixing on camera (the hidden belief) - perhaps pointing out bias in the form of the black woman/white man duo being rare (potential legitimate issue).

Suppose I applauded the use of computer vision to spot the frequency of black man/white woman pairs - I know you wouldn't consider that a neutral political perspective. tldr; Political neutrality is impossible when your attention is being dragged along by the current prevailing wisdom of the forum.



That's true, but part of the art of posting a good HN comment, or at least not posting a bad one, is to resist reacting to the most provocative thing in a comment (other than possibly to downvote or flag it) and instead react to the most interesting thing, or not react at all. That's not easy for most of us, including me.




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