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By demonstrating the mathematical inevitability of anti-discrimination laws generating discrimination, we also have a proof that math is, indeed, racist.

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Sad but true.

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Victim or oppressor is a binary issue and decided upon on a case by case basis.

There are two people up for a job, whoever has more victim points is the victim, the other is then the oppressor by definition. You can see this happen time and time again, these statuses are relative not absolute.

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Harrison Bergeron lives. Poorly, but he lives.

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What you describe here is a feature, not a bug. The goal has always been to create more victims in order to create more division. Politicians and the power=mad use this division to gain even more power while we fight amongst ourselves and never identify the true enemy.

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“It therefore becomes as certain as you like that companies, no matter how many people they hire, can legally be accused of discrimination, because it is nearly impossible to hire all Victim groups proportionally.”

I think you may have cracked the code here. Let me provide another example.

I used to commute to work along a busy, but not congested, stretch of highway that had a speed limit of 70MPH. But that was in New Jersey, a state well known for its fastidious adherence to traffic regulations, and therefore the average speed must have been at least 85MPH. What caught my attention was that nobody bothered to make even a half-hearted attempt to slow down when passing radar speed traps. And this was the correct decision, because the guardians of public safety seemed to only very selectively spring into action. Their basis of selection became apparent to me with some months of experience, but that’s not the point here. The point is that they could arbitrarily pull over anyone, with legitimate excuse (speeding), because everyone was speeding. No “probable cause” required.

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💬 We can use math to quantify some probabilities. (Not all: ask me about this another day.)

'Tis another day yonder; count your good self asked 😊

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A/B Testing.. A method to unsure you manage to piss off ALL of your users.

If you have nothing but 99/1 tests... i.e. for every test you do, 99 people pick 1 route and 1 person picks the other. 1 in 100 is going to be unhappy when the new feature shows up...

how many AB tests to make 1/2 of your users unhappy...

The number is less than 70.

If those tests are 60/40, the number is much smaller. But listening to users is good isn't it? Well.. Maybe. If your new user base is 10x the old user base, you can blow buy the 50% of your users that walk away.

Bad software can work really well.

Good software can work really badly.

Get excited about the bottom line not going negative BEFORE you get excited about the perfect interface.

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On the next NASA mission to the moon for the 2 astronauts the priorities are: must be black and a woman.

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This is discriminatory, as it includes no one in wheelchair, no transgendered, no homosexual, and no Hispanic.

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The most clear thing here to me is that only the very largest companies can even attempt to comply. A company of 20 loses 5 percentage points for each white man that they hire(unless he is gay the one and only magical solvent that makes white men victims) A company of 10000 loses nothing. The love for the megacorp is always near the heart of the point of the thing. This is the real reason that larger companies are always liberal, because they are always trying to maximize share price. ESG just provides them guidance to know which way to pander, it is a sort of insider information on what the Empire will pay for.

The most sought after product in our society, and perhaps most necessary, is one that can make talented men victims. Thus, bright young men try to convince colleges that they are black because they need scholarships. Men put on skirts because they need a promotion. Someone should quantify the Victim Economy. Are the payoffs from having an Indian Woman CEO greater than those for having a Black man CFO? What about when you subtract the probable costs of their incompetence?(Not that all black men or indian women are incompetent, just most of the ones who advertise their identity as a qualification.)

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Sigh.

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