alt Hacker NewsIt's socially acceptable to make white people jokes because white people on average enjoy an elevated position in western society. It's viewed as 'punching up'. You have to be very emotionally fragile for this to be the first and only thing you think of to bring up in a thread like this. It's also supremely uninteresting cable news talking point slop.
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I'd also posit that the jokes just aren't racist. Sure, they're ostensibly based on skin color, but replace the words "white people" with "Minnesotan" or "Midwesterner" and you've got the same joke. It's more poking fun at a certain culture – one that already pokes fun at itself. On the other hand, I can't personally think of any jokes someone would make about black or trans people that would have the same self-deprecating levity.
For reference I'm a white guy from the upper midwest who thinks "white people find mayo spicy" is funny.
> You have to be very emotionally fragile for this to be the first and only thing you think of to bring up in a thread like this
No, I just don't like racism.
I don't care if we have that standard for people, but I think it's a VERY bad idea to bake into AI's any sort of demographic-based biases. Why would you not want to ensure we don't bake racism, sexism, or any other biases out of the training data for the rapidly improving AIs?
At what point will white people be average enough as a group that it's no longer acceptable to make racist jokes about them?
Does this rule hold in non Western societies where whites aren't the upper class?
Because these are our societies. We build them. If this door were to swing both ways, I would not have an issue. But it never does. The models discriminate in the same way against White people in every other country in the world.
Or, now hear me out, we don't be racist. Have you considered that?
Don't make jokes about me, it's not ok.
Revenge mentality. F off with that shit
Try norther Ireland.
> It's viewed as 'punching up'
Shouldn't we be building systems that don't punch anyone in racist ways? Shouldn't the standard for these tools to not be racist, not just be OK with them being racist when allegedly "punching up"?
Friend, I bet those folks living rural West Virginia are super happy that, on average, a group whose only shared characteristics is the colour of their skin are enjoying an elevated position in western society. Super happy. All racism is gross.