> You didn't answer my question. I asked it because I want to know if the people most vocally arguing that de-biasing is a moral imperative will admit even one case where there might be a compelling reason to see the world as it is, even if that association is considered "problematic".
I didn't find those questions to be that smart, to be honest, they're more on the scare-mongering side, and I find that a smart question should have half of the answer included in it and a scare-mongering question doesn't look like it contains anything smart (at least to me). But if you really want to know my answer is "yes" to all of your questions. To get into more details: I grew up as a kid into a middle-class-ish family and back then I had no issues going to the "ghetto"/dangerous area of the town I grew up in (I grew up in Eastern Europe, so that the "dangerous" area was populated by the local gipsy community instead of the AfroAmerican/Latino communities now associated with the "dangerous" areas of US cities). I turned up fine.
> If people will admit this, then we can argue over where the line should be. But many don't appear to admit that a line even exists.
I know of that line, I was just trying to say that further reinforcing it using ML techniques will only aggravate things at a societal level (so that "dangerous" areas will become even more "dangerous"). At least when the discrimination happens out of our (us, humans) own volition there are ways to fix it, but once we "outsource" our racist-tendencies to ML-like tools the voice inside of us telling us that this is all wrong will become even weaker. After all, the algorithms/machines are more "right" then us, humans, that's what we like to think.