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This is precisely it. The conventional advice goes along the lines of "treat each person on their individual merits and characteristics". This scales fine when you only deal with a handful of people on a day to day basis.

As we do more stuff algorithmically and globally this approach does not scale at all. This can cause technology to re-enforce our biases no matter how subtle.

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