Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai

Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by TeMPOraL on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @11:07AM (#14958550)

> the original author was spouting debunked “biotruth” arguments

C.f. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14956592, where an actual scientist is quoted to say "The author of the Google essay on issues related to diversity gets nearly all of the science and its implications exactly right."

See also http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagger... for plenty of good references on the topic.

But generally, I mean, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I don't expect to see peace over this topic any time soon.

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Re:Note to Google Employees from CEO Sundar Pichai by joshuamorton on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @12:50PM (#14959721)

I think the best way to summarize the memo is that he quotes a bunch of science, which is true.

He also makes a bunch of unfounded claims that aren't really related to the science. And people argue that because he said a bunch of sciency things that scientists agree are correct, that everything he said was true.

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