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However, algorithms are stupid. They are really good at finding “cheat” factors to get good at predicting, factors which a human might (hopefully) disregard. So in this case, the algorithm will learn that being male (whether stated explicitly or implicitly in the CV) means a six times larger chance of being hired in the training data.

This means that the algorithm will notice that sex has a major impact on what it has been told “success” looks like. So it will end up weighting sex heavily in the final formula it comes up with to score applicants, which means that a CV from a woman will only get a high score if the other factors the algorithm has decided are important outweigh the low score in the sex category. Since it’s unlikely a woman will be enough better in other categories to outweigh the low score on “sex”, she will likely not be called to an interview.

This is bad and im not defending AI companies or whatever, but "They™️ want to make the masses stupid so they can control them" is textbook conspiracy. To assume that there is some kind of unified, orchestrated purpose to all of these things implies that there are people intentionally pulling the strings in the background. Who would these people be? How would many different actors from completely different, non-allied countries all act in concert to achieve a goal together?

Chapters: 44/44 Fandom: The Hobbit - All Media Types Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Bard the Bowman/Thranduil Characters: Thranduil (Tolkien), Bard the Bowman, Thranduil’s Wife, Bard the Bowman’s Children, Legolas Greenleaf, Tauriel, Sigrid (Hobbit Movies), Bain of Dale, Tilda (Hobbit Movies), Elrond Peredhel, Celebrían (Tolkien), Arwen Undómiel, Dís (Tolkien), Kíli (Tolkien), Fíli (Tolkien), Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Gandalf (Tolkien), Sauron (Tolkien) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, set in 1977, Historical References, Slow Burn, I’m not joking about the slowness of this slow burn, emergency room physician Thranduil, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, caretaker Bard (in several senses of the term), ELF (extremely long fic), this house may or may not be haunted, Non-Explicit Sex, all the standard tropes you would expect in a haunted house story Summary:

In the year 1977, following a tragedy that upends his life, former emergency-room physician Thranduil Oropherion purchases a sprawling, centuries-old estate in northern New Hampshire, planning to ship his children off to boarding school and waste away without ever being seen again. His plans go awry immediately thanks to Bard Bowman, the caretaker of the estate, and as an unlikely friendship blooms between them, Thranduil finds himself slowly coming back to life.

His house does the same.