Re:Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to vi...
by baddox on Saturday November 24, 2018 @06:51AM
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That’s a bit silly though. A citation can’t somehow “prove” a moral statement. I think it’s clear that the commenter was assuming the reasonable moral claim that ethnicity/gender/etc. should not affect one’s opportunities in science, and then claiming that there is still work to be done in achieving that goal.
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Re:Major AI conference is moving to Africa in 2020 due to vi...
by logicchains on Saturday November 24, 2018 @08:20AM
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>A citation can’t somehow “prove” a moral statement.
A moral statement doesn't prove itself. Someone has to prove it, either by providing an argument themselves, which the poster didn't do, or citing an external source of proof.
>ethnicity/gender/etc. should not affect one’s opportunities in science, and then claiming that there is still work to be done in achieving that goal.
That claim still requires a supporting argument: evidence to support that ethnicity/gender/etc. is affecting peoples' opportunities in science.