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    7 hours ago

    For sure. There are always outliers and opportunity for more granular classification. Doesn’t mean the classifiers we have now are wrong, just not complete. I think it wouldn’t be as big of a concern if we didn’t relate male and female so closely to man and woman.

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        5 hours ago

        Sure, but it’s sounding like guns kill people. People don’t kill people. We use skin color to discriminate against people, but doesn’t mean you can’t use it as a categorization in other ways. Anything can be used to discriminate against somebody. Credit score. Types of clothes they wear. Whatever.

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          4 hours ago

          Anything can be used to discriminate against somebody.

          Very true.

          I think it wouldn’t be as big of a concern if we didn’t relate male and female so closely to man and woman.

          I think we agree here.