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> The importance of diversity is beyond reasonable doubt, isn’t it? Why?
by ar15saveslives 10y ago
> The importance of diversity is beyond reasonable doubt, isn’t it?
Why?
- gdix 10y agoTranslation: "if you don't agree with this, you are not being reasonable"
- ar15saveslives 10y agoGreat argument, can be applied to anything.
- gdix 10y agoWell yeah, anything that someone says is "beyond a reasonable doubt" when they're referring to something that as nuanced as "diversity".
- 7952 10y agoIt could give a greater range of insight and experience to a problem. Also, it is easy to optimise for diversity, and fiendishly difficult to optimise for other more subtle aspects of human behaviour.
- self-diversity 10y agoyou've hypothesized reasons why something should be automatically accepted, which is funny in cosmic poetry sense, but not terribly evidentiary.
- 7952 10y agoHow can you provide evidence to support a philosophical viewpoint? Such questions are unavoidably subjective.
- self-diversity 10y agoHow can one say an unavoidably subjective viewpoint is beyond doubt? And this is not merely philosophical. The notion of improvement can be validly measured in many disciplines, and this is true in many disciplines that are under scrutiny for their lack of particular genitalia.
- metaphorm 10y ago> it is easy to optimise for diversity only in the most crude, ham-fisted way though. it's extremely hard to find people who actually break the groupthink. it's extremely hard to even identify your own groupthink blind spots, let alone cover them with people with genuinely different perspectives. the crude diversity solution seems highly likely to select for people with superficial differences but core similarities.
- 7952 10y agoYes it is extremely hard, which may make the ham-fisted way more practical.
- jbmorgado 10y agoThe diversity that actually adds something to the understating of a problem, is the diversity of ideas and points of view. Putting different races, genders, sexual orientations, etc, just for the sake of appearing diverse, adds nothing to solve any problem.