I read HN with showdead on. There's some pretty unjustifiable censorship going on in this thread. I'll just call their attention to their own rule on this: "Pl

I read HN with showdead on. There's some pretty unjustifiable censorship going on in this thread. I'll just call their attention to their own rule on this: "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." The weak interpretation of these dead comments is that they're just racists who hate dark-skinned people. There are much stronger interpretations and those should be discussed. Especially in the context of Google, where it's been demonstrated over and over through video leaks, court filings and the Damore firing, that a single and very heavy-handed ideology has power and will not allow discussion. From a centrist position is seems obvious Google's internal thought process will be itself heavily biased, and the possibility of certain factual hypothesis being true about the physical world (not normative statements on what to do) will be denied for ideological reasons. It's like a group of fundamentalist Christian scientists studying geology. This needs to be acknowledged in any discussion of Google, ML, and 'bias'.