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There is insufficient information here to make any judgement. It’s clear that the journalists involved want us to make a set of suppositions that support their
by teakettle42 4y ago
There is insufficient information here to make any judgement.
It’s clear that the journalists involved want us to make a set of suppositions that support their narrative about Timnit, but the reporting doesn’t support that conclusion — or really, any conclusion at all.
It’s vapor — outrage bait.
- advisedwang 4y agoThere might be insufficient data to make judgement or cause outrage, but it's still news worth reporting that this is going on. Tangent: Often conspiracy theories start from an actual "that's weird" moment. There might be nothing to answer that weirdness one way or another, and for some folks its impossible to leave the question mark hanging forever, so they either dismiss it or construct a complete (and often silly) narrative around it. I wish we were better at taking in information without a final judgement to slot it into immediately.
- adamrezich 4y ago> I wish we were better at taking in information without a final judgement to slot it into immediately. agreed—I've said this here before but it seems like the human mind pretty much always wants to resolve/collapse uncertainty into something "knowable", and it takes practice and effort to allow yourself to mentally remain in the uncollapsed state when there isn't enough information to make a complete judgement.
- the_biot 4y ago