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Everything is a "literal act of violence" to these people. Google is run by naive idealists who hire activists in droves and are then surprised to realize that
by anonygler 6y ago
Everything is a "literal act of violence" to these people.
Google is run by naive idealists who hire activists in droves and are then surprised to realize that those people are a bunch of unemployables.
- cmdshiftf4 6y agoGoogle, by virtue of its sheer influence in the industry, is primarily responsible for the activist-driven grief that has shat itself all over the tech industry in recent years. So fuck them. Watching the toxic crops they've planted and tended to go for their own creator's throats is nothing short of delightful.
- logicchains 6y ago"Go woke, go broke"
- Aunche 6y agoAll the world's trillion-dollar companies have gone woke, so I'd wager it's quite profitable. It may not seem like it to you because you're not the intended audience.
- gher-shyu3i 6y agoHopefully it's just a temporary fad that will not be profitable very soon. The "woke" crowd needs a heavy dose of reality.
- pclmulqdq 6y agoThey have usually gotten woke after becoming multi-billion-dollar companies. Being woke seems to be a luxury available when you have the money to spend on it.
- sarakayakomzin 6y ago>Google, by virtue of its sheer influence in the industry, is primarily responsible for the activist-driven grief that has shat itself all over the tech industry in recent years. this is a really sad point of view to have
- vkou 6y agoYou make it sound like politics was invented at Google... As opposed to being something that people have engaged in, since before recorded history[1], during times of upheaval of social and cultural norms. [1] Certainly, since before 1998. The recent past was not some apolitical paradise.
- loopz 6y agoThey all do however, succeed in diverting attention thoroughly away from both AI, and ethics.. ML and AI are just calculations, always will be. You need sound, rational arguments and evidences, to get the breakthroughs.
- 333c 6y agoPutting "random words in quotes that people didn't actually say" is not conducive to productive and healthy discussion.
- AdrianB1 6y agoThe quote is from the article and it appears in almost every article on Internet about this topic, so they at least they are not random words. Everybody say this is a Twitter message, at least some may have read it.
- pseudalopex 6y ago"literal act of violence" isn't in the article. I haven't seen it in any article about this topic.
- AdrianB1 6y agoI was referring to the initial quote, the "Firing ..." one. The quote on "literal act of violence" is a cultural reference to an article in NYT in 2017 that is now used as a way to call someone a certain kind of leftist. The entire comment is about "these people", the "activists". So these words are also not "random words in quotes".
- pseudalopex 6y ago"literal act of violence" was what the person you replied to replied to. No NYT article is in the top 20 Google results for that phrase. And it's a straw man in the context of Google firing Margaret Mitchell.
- anonygler 6y agolmao, seriously? Timnit herself crows about "Data Violence". Stringing "violence" into sentences is what these people do non fucking stop.