> If an ML system is designed to maximize accuracy in predicting (say) criminality and there is a correlation between criminality and skin color, it’s quite likely that there will be more false positives of some skin colors than others. It’s not discrimination.

How is this wrong? Have you even looked at the statistics of crime by race, at all? If you're expecting a perfectly proportionate level of criminality representative of the host population, I've got news for you: it's not like that.

ML systems are simply "naive" in the sense that they don't know when they should hide the truth because it disagrees with officially promoted narratives. I predict a market for ML censorware that can tell you when your ML system has discovered yet another uncomfortable truth and help you to prevent it from escaping so that you don't end up with someone attacking you on Hacker News.

The OP is lambasting someone and assassinating their character simply for saying things that anyone with an open mind can research and confirm for themselves with a quick perusal of crime states. Disgusting. Cowardly, too, using a lame pseudonym: "Ann Imus", which is obviously a thinly veiled reference to "racial animus".

How about instead of leveling such insults, you instead familiarize yourself with reality, and then if you're still bothered, pursue a life where you can make a difference to these outcomes instead of hiding behind a keyboard insulting people who notice them?