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One day, something in space is going to look at humans the same way. You go to a new galaxy and there's freaking humans in there, like they just spontaneously manifest on random planets that have the ability to sustain them. All you need is an atmosphere with enough oxygen, some form of water, and that's pretty much all you need before they seem to just pop out of the ground and start terraforming it.

The mystery of the lake fish has been solved, by the way. It's waterfowl. Much like the birds that eat seeds and spread them around, waterfowl consume roe from the water, and while the number of fertilised fish eggs that pass through the digestive system of a duck or wild goose alive and unharmed may be small, it's not zero. A goose will shit in the lake water, and through comes the roe. It happens just often enough that lakes and ponds become - and remain - populated with fish.

Humans don't pop up on unknown planets and and unreachable galaxies on purpose. They couldn't get in there any more than they could get out of there, they have no choice but to claim the most viable-looking planet they can reach and start terraforming it. But how did they even get there?

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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.

and I do not have to hand it to them, but I will say that I never in a million years could have guessed that one of their hot new character reimaginings was going to be taking the head of the blood purity house, the guy who torments his students beyond reason on a regular basis, the guy who has a specific hate-on for the protagonist because he wanted to fuck that kid's mom, the guy whose hair and nose are frequently remarked on to emphasize that he's a unpleasant and creepy-looking motherfucker—never would I ever have guessed that anyone would have come up "hey, what if that guy was Black?"