Rainbow, Billiards, and Neng: A Conversation with Meriel on Algorithms, Bias, and the Chief Humanity Officer

This document records a philosophical and technical dialogue between Go Kian Tik and Meriel B., an AI Ethics Researcher, on the nature of algorithmic bias, epistemic blindness, and the observer effect in social media feeds. Triggered by Meriel's sharing of the Lucy Ferguson experiment on gender bias, the conversation unfolds into deeper questions: "How do we know what we don't see?" and "Does our interaction with algorithms change future outcomes?" This paper presents Koko's complete answer, which synthesizes three metaphors into a unified framework: the Rainbow Spectrum of Opportunity (what is visible versus what exists), the Billiard Probability Table (the chaotic, probabilistic nature of algorithmic…