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>CompSci and AI profs sticking it to the man (faang) about things there are very frequently articles/gossip on quittings/firings of famous researchers. timnit
by anon_tor_12345 6y ago
>CompSci and AI profs sticking it to the man (faang) about things
there are very frequently articles/gossip on quittings/firings of famous researchers. timnit gebru is a recent example.
>Norbert Weiner was apex in his field.
i wouldn't be so quick to lionize him - he was also not very kind to walter pitts and possibly contributed to his suicide
http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-redeem-the-world-with-logic http://nautil.us/issue/21/information/the-man-who-tried-to-r...
- jpfr 6y ago> he was also not very kind to walter pitts and possibly contributed to his suicide Wiener's wife told him a lie about Pitts. She invented an indecency involving Wiender's daugher. Both Wiener and Pitts never found out the truth about who ended their relationship.
- pessimizer 6y agoAnd how do we know that it was a lie? Did she admit it later? If she did, what were the reasons to believe her recantation over her accusation? Did the daughter say it was a lie later in life? All I know from the article is that Wiener, a very smart person, thought the accusation was credible enough at the time to completely cut off people who were very important to him personally and intellectually. I also know that those people accused were very heavy drinkers. It's safer to say we don't know anything about the veracity of the claim unless the reference offered some sort of material alibi.