Great Books Ep 7: What's in a name? Everything, something, or nothing?

How important is someone's name and lineage? Is it ever possible to overcome the implicit biases in humans and AI systems that a person's name or lineage indicates?

And the son of Hippolochus answered, “Mighty son of Tydeus, why ask me of my lineage? Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees. Those of autumn the wind sheds upon the ground, but when spring returns the forest buds forth with fresh ones. Even so is it with the generations of mankind, the new spring up as the old are passing away.”

~ The Ili…