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Honestly, it's no wonder The Pile produced models have to be "bias adjusted." Please, pick, at random, any date on that page and you can say the same thing abo
by joshcryer 4y ago
Honestly, it's no wonder The Pile produced models have to be "bias adjusted."
Please, pick, at random, any date on that page and you can say the same thing about any of the subject matters. Here. I just did it. 2003. Middlesex. Book about a girl that's not a girl. 1982. Rabbit Is Rich. Book from a series that explores drugs, identity, religion, this one has alcoholism themes. 1976. Humboldt's Gift. Story about commodification and culture.
The whole point of the Pulitzer for books novels and music is to encourage and highlight the unique stuff. The fact that they may reflect the current themes of those times should not be surprising or bothersome.
- whymauri 4y agoI did the same thing! For the 1970s awards. One is about a black bartender and the racial tensions of the Civil Rights era. Another is about the experience of womenhood and loneliness. One about Gandhi and the Indian experience. The biographical piece was about Huey Long, an advocate for wealth taxes and redistribution. The thing is identity is so broad that you can fit anything as being 'identity' media, especially the kind of emotionally compelling/captivating works that would win a Pulitzer.
- cato_the_elder 4y agoYes, it has always been biased and far from ideal (e.g. see @chernevik's comment about Walter Duranty). But I think it's getting worse. I wish there was some metric like Oscar's viewership for Pulitzer, so we could chart the decline of their prestige in recent years. The closest thing I can think of right now is Google n-grams: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pulitzer&year_start=2000&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pulitzer&year_...
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