I don't know if you're familiar with PBS's Idea Channel Youtube show, but the episode they released this week seems relevant.
One thing that was particularly interesting for me as a computer science guy is that the issue with Rimworld (whether or not you can really have unbiased code) has actually cropped up in a number of places over the last year. Most visibly, when Facebook caught all that flack for their news trending filters suppressing politically right-leaning articles more then left-leaning ones. The notion that systems we have built having baked-in bias is something we've accepted happens in our social institutions, but it seems like we're going to have to get used to the same being true of our technology.
I don't really have a specific question with this, so much as I'm generally curious about your reaction to the topics broached in the video, and whether you felt it was a respectful and/or insightful treatment of them.
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