The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this should be grounds for a prison sentence. open support for Nazism shouldn’t be covered by free speech laws.

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Some might argue that the authors of this article have their head so far up their own ass that they haven’t seen daylight in years”

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, nothing says “this person will repay their loans” like looking at their face and nothing fucking else.

  I love how you can just call it capetalismo in portuguese, capeta = devil

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait a minute, this sounds suspiciously familiar… I think I heard about the psudoscience of a government measuring the size of people’s heads to try to find out their ethnicity… somewhere in Rwanda… 🧐

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There was also a German fella that got up to similar hijinks awhile back.

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• leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me and my hammer would be happy to offer our retrophrenological services to any executives looking to improve their performance and personality (painkillers not included).

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• BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m not sure we’re going to make it y’all.

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• xyguy@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Measles, theocratic government, phrenology: everything old is new again.

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• AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The Economist is generally a pretty good news source, but I thought this article was subpar.

  Irrespective of whether this facial evaluation algorithm works or not, as things stand today, it is pointless to discuss its use in the context of meritocracy. A regime founded upon the rejection of personal responsibility, corruption and criminality makes such discussions irrelevant (algorithm or no algorithm).

  At the risk of sounding like an accelerationist, I can’t get rid of the feeling that the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope.

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  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Economist is generally a pretty good news source,

    Gotta be drinking the pseudo-science sauce to believe this.

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    • Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Literally promoting phrenology.

      That’s why I said this article was subpar. And I even commented on this in pretty harsh terms:

      the regime members are really busy doing their best to make a new metaphorical rope

      I don’t agree with a lot of what they say, but I don’t believe they are malicious, at least to the extent that many American news sources are.

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    • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Plus the post filled with buzzwords that superficially sound smart strung together in a way that say nothing of value.

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• devolution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bringing back racism and good vibes under “scientific principle.”

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• pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “If he’s black, get him out of here”

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• KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bro has the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Disturbing. What is the proposed mechanism here? Or is it unknown?

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  • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They just use the buzzword “AI”, but in reality it’s probably going to be a machine learning algorithm.

    Take the dataset, split out the groups of people you do/don’t want to hire based on whatever criteria, train the model to be more likely to pick faces with characteristics from the “do hire” group, and less likely to pick those from the “don’t hire” group.

    Then, use it on real people, and it will provide similar outcomes based on faces.

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What I meant was, what is the mechanism that supposedly connects facial features to job performance?

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• ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That image reminds me a meme from “Scientific diagrams that look like shitposts”. It was titled something like “Mask of Damascus(?)/Triagones(?) - Acquire it (from a prisoner(?)) with a scimitar!”

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  youtube.com/watch?v=FVvg1CKBE20

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• basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ooh yay, more ways for employer’s AI to autoreject people! How fun!

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• Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think Lenin (for all his problems), had a good criticism of the economist though I can’t find a great source for it

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  • Postimo@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war.

    www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/…/01c.htm

    For all his problems??

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• iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is that…an AI generated image?

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