how do we stop bias feedback loops in all data, especially profiling data that exacerbates institutionalized racism?wow! what a question. the background is that palantir is being used to work up profiles of criminals based on criminal data. then it catches the same criminals it caught before and gives them even worse scores. people who live on the fringes of society get swept up into feedback loops. get caught once doing something criminal and they have a higher chance of being scoped out and pinpointed. anybody see the problem here? right. if you don’t get caught, you won’t get profiled. if you don’t get caught because you live under a system of white privilege, you definitely won’t get profiled. because you’re white. proposed solution? the scientific method. take a baseline and use a well thought placebo to test the null hypothesis. don’t just profile criminals. profile randoms! profile judges. profile politicians. profile old, rich, white men. it’s not perfect but it’ll engage at least a tiny bit of science against the deafeningly loud screech of racist feedback loops.