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6y ago
How does that make lying OK?
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6y ago
Opinions are irrelevant to facts and evidence.
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6y ago
They are two-faced liars?
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6y ago
Sure, but that defeats the quest for horizontal scalability. You can build highly performant systems based on serial execution, but not sure this is an area where Kafka excels particularly.
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6y ago
Bribes functions as oil in the machinery of society, and empowers strong men against rampant decadence. So is working for good when it is sanctioned and goes to the right people and their agendas, comprising of: terrorist attacks, slavery,
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6y ago
> [...] I don't want you to understand why it doesn't have the if statement. But I want you to understand that sometimes you can see a problem in a different way and rewrite it so that a special case goes away and becomes the n
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6y ago
The best rebuttal so far has been to decline to comment. However, without revealing names the paper outlines internal company matters, presenting opinions and tautology that do not fit proper format of professionally published research. Ins
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6y ago
Modern ethical AI / ML, is both that and beyond that. Issues range vastly in how complex algorithms can be used, misused and misinterpreted. There are also issues of uncovering hidden biases, unfairness, manipulative effects, privacy i
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6y ago
My strongest argument is AGAINST managers at Google getting to micromanage, censor and to revenge-fire a researcher, just because they personally disagree with their published AI Ethics Research . A job said researcher was tasked with and
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6y ago
Yep. People mistake means for the ends. Anybody may be susceptible to such ideology and short-circuited bias. However, technical people are often so focused on their details, we are probably even more vulnerable to this than most.
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6y ago
We haven't heard any arguments, only that management can do as they please when they don't like results of AI Ethics Research . We'll likely not get anything substantial, ever, either. As I've stated in other post, this
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6y ago
Yeah, but "The Middle Path" is a hard sell to the masses.
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6y ago
"Old men's club" is real and need a shakeup. However, the elite clubs hurt both genders, not just one of them. It is not balanced by an equally forceful swing the other direction, but by emphasis on mutual respect for diversi
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6y ago
Is insubordination to have a different opinion, and then offer paths to agreement between professionals? Is insubordination to represent your responsibility area, as Ethical AI Researcher ? Is insubordination to send an email in order to e
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6y ago
Threatening to leave is often times the ONLY leverage a worker has. What other leverage can a human utilize, in order to get their concerns addressed? And how seriously does Google managers really take AI ethics , when they fail to resolve
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6y ago
No need to put words and strawmen in mouth.
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6y ago
Trump pressured Georgia governor in call to help overturn Biden's win in state https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/05/politics/trump-georgia-br...
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Traditional line managers lack interest / incentives for projects. Even though they might be high priority, different functions have different goals and measurements. The managers themselves fail every new line initiative, since they&#
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I only take some issue in last two paragraphs. I'll only mention for Agile teams, not other kinds: In Agile team, the team is responsible. Management decides how to reach accountability, though in practice the team together can pull th
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6y ago
The consultants behind AM are always hired by managers. I'm sure they agree what they do get for the money. Also being in same team with a stakeholder, you minimize coordination cost and adjust goals and plans according to value. The o
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Hard to work with may dissolve if management set a good culture where everyone meet on even terms. Having a few hold all the keys to the kingdom scales badly.
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If management don't understand the projects, and they generally don't, what are they really managing? Oh yeah, get the pay but use position as shield and sword.. You'll see the few exceptions are acting more like a PM, on and
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6y ago
Depending on reference, both are true, and false. Logic is not probabilistic, but it is referential and not absolute.
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6y ago
Updated title.
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6y ago
Depends on who is understanding or not, if they reject it. However, evolving perspective is good as we see past assumptions, not facts, are always wrong to some extent. Not sure how QM changed who though. That everything is interconnected a
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A bit short on characters and didn't want it to be about current president.
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Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and touts martial law
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Analogies and perceptions work in the mind only.
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Models do not yet consider the co-dependent nature of the chaotic nature of the whole; stuck in brief stable zone to support advanced civilization.
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Two bodies have simple, non-chaotic solutions. Three+ bodies do not solve linearly. Thus reveal themselves as unsolvable probabilities and pattern structures across scales. The individuals and environment exists co-dependently.
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