SilasBarta comments on LW systemic bias: US centrism - Less Wrong

10 Post author: lucidfox 19 July 2011 07:21PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (58)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: SilasBarta 21 July 2011 07:41:49PM 3 points [-]

My point is that the fact that the probabilistic inference is valid does not imply that you should e.g. use examples that assume the user is that way, which was the reason you were making that point to begin with. I can safely assume that an unknown user is male. Doesn't mean I should use male-experience specific examples for elucidation.

Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 26 July 2011 01:16:19AM *  1 point [-]

See here (minus the part about the robe). My response was about whether a certain presumption was biased, not whether it was an optimal social norm.