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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't think it's a need to have an opinion. They're trying to spin it as a firing so they can claim Gebru is an oppressed black woman who's a victim of racism. If she resigned then that narrative falls flat.
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by thu2111 6y ago
The post you're replying to literally says "in no way did I feel oppressed"
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That particular issue is much better solved by a JIT compiling GIL-free Python implementation like GraalPython.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Re: last point. Fair enough. That point is sound. Japan seems to have evolved a work culture very similar to strongly unionised societies but without unions. Japanese salaryman culture is famously a culture of employment for life with unusu
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by thu2111 6y ago
Just to clarify, in many parts of Europe you cannot do that, you would need to be a recognised union and in many cases at least hold a vote of some sort, there would probably also be requirements around negotiations. You would also be res
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by thu2111 6y ago
In many countries you do need a vote for a strike to be organised. You can't just spam people with a request to stop working. Strikes are a powerful tactic that have evolved a lot of formality around them to try and ensure the outcomes
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by thu2111 6y ago
Good point, but I'm struggling to remember people who were radicalised exclusively through ISIS websites. There probably have been a few just because there were so many cases by now they all blur together a bit, but usually ISIS sympat
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You'd expect that yes, but weirdly, you'd be wrong. Journal impact factor and likelihood of replication don't seem to correlate: https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/whats-wrong-with...
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by thu2111 6y ago
It's really sad watching people bend over backwards trying to give this person a break. You admit she's a bully, super aggressive, constantly makes spurious accusations of racism, attempts to destroy her enemies totally and is in
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Pithy and concise, I like it. That's exactly it.
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Isn't that basically newspapers? Journalists post articles and links to indicate they're at least interesting if not trustworthy, and usually under their own name. Webs of trust never worked for cryptography though.
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by thu2111 6y ago
Google let's you link to a page without transmitting PageRank. There's no notion of transmitting negative rank because of course that would be horribly abused by competitors trying to sink each others sites. I think the web is pre
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by thu2111 6y ago
I don't know, is that really true? Slack organises messages by channel and you can absolutely mute channels, prioritise them, control notifications etc. As for work/life, I saw people complain about that but you see people say the
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by thu2111 6y ago
Christianity revolves around the fact that Jesus replaced the Old Testament with an entirely new one, and his teachings in some cases directly contradicted what the Old Testament says. It's not really fair to judge Christianity by vers
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by thu2111 6y ago
The web already provides this: people or groups can publish under semi-stable names, linked to their real identity or not, and people can hyperlink to each other's content. The link graph is the web of trust and Google famously uses it
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by thu2111 6y ago
Most Islamic extremism is spread through mosques and prisons, at least in Europe. I can't remember the last time a terrorism investigation tracked the original radicalisation back to the internet. It's a non issue.
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by thu2111 6y ago
From this person's perspective the right kinds of people already control those institutions. This entire article boils down to someone discovering they wish the entire internet was Twitter and YouTube because then people with the sam
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by thu2111 6y ago
We're talking about tech firms that have access to the entire internet and use it. Hypothetical examples involving imaginary datasets that nobody would use don't prove anything relevant. And note that my argument is not about whet
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by thu2111 6y ago
You're not the only one. What we're seeing here is a simple problem spilling out into the public: a lot of AI research is being done at a small number of companies that are in turn dominated by a tiny minority of people with polit
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by thu2111 6y ago
Remember that outside the valley AI bubble Gebru is primarily famous for having publicly whipped up a mob against Yann LeCun and chasing him off Twitter by constantly claiming he was a racist sexist white man with no clue. Given that, it&#x
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by thu2111 6y ago
Why? It sounds like ideologically driven circular reasoning. If you train an AI on the largest dataset it's possible to obtain then you have, almost by definition, done the most you can to avoid bias of any sort: the model will learn t
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by thu2111 6y ago
Ah yes, the classic "if you're against affirmative action you're a racist" line. Knock it off. I'm the opposite of racist: the thought of arguing with a black woman doesn't bother me in the slightest. I'll
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by thu2111 6y ago
Well, read any AI bias paper. Facts about reality these models capture and which are considered problematic include stuff like "doctors are more often men and nurses are more often women" or "most people on the internet are w
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by thu2111 6y ago
I definitely saw a bit of that when I was there, but only a bit. I think it mostly started after I left. Before about 2012 or so, every female engineer I encountered was just as competent as the men. I never thought about diversity culture
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by thu2111 6y ago
Rude, maybe but not very. Dismissal, yes. The belief that AI should learn reality as it exists and not some ideologically purified version of it is a completely rational one, and dismissing the "work" of those so-called "ethi
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Not jaded. I think that's actually a very insightful way to put it. Heck I wouldn't even mind if a boss I had put it like that, as it's at least honest and not really unreasonable. I mean, if you go into an organisation and d
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Balancing power over ever larger areas does run into problems with long distance inter-connectors and spare capacity in general though, so it's not like this is an easily solved problem. The UK is well connected to mainland Europe with
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by thu2111 6y ago
Argh, being fired for this isn't crazy. What kind of "security control" allows changes to security systems that aren't for the purposes of improving security? Whatever controls you're talking about are clearly not c
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by thu2111 6y ago
It went through the usual security controls yet she was immediately fired for doing it? Really? Do you understand how that sounds? Please do explain how someone makes a message appear in your browser when you visit a particular website, wit
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How? That quote comes from the person who was fired. She explained what she did because she's proud of it: she injected some code into a web page about unions and organising telling Googlers they had a right to organise. The Google sec

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