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You are assuming that the only reason Barnawi went to the ISS is because of her ethnicity. I looked her up, and turns out she is conducting experiments on ISS i

by danans 3y ago

You are assuming that the only reason Barnawi went to the ISS is because of her ethnicity. I looked her up, and turns out she is conducting experiments on ISS in her field of biomedical research. https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2023/05/25/Saudi-astronauts-complete-first-scientific-experiments-in-space https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2023/05/25/S... You might counter that she was selected by the wealthy Saudi authorities as a PR stunt. That's probably also true to some extent, but how is that different than the than how space travel was used for PR/patriotic purposes in the US and Russia for in the past? A lot of space travel throughout it's history is openly about selling aspiration.

password54321 3y ago
>You are assuming that the only reason Barnawi went to the ISS is because of her ethnicity. Never said that. Just pointing out what you treat as a positive reward signal matters if you want to optimize for the goal that's actually intended here.
- danans 3y ago
  > what you treat as a positive reward signal matters if you want to optimize for the goal that's actually intended here. What is this singular goal that you are implying should be intended here? The absolutely pure pursuit of science? That's never been the goal of space travel, even from it's inception.