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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:24PM (#23697437)
I think it does mean that other people can't be frustrated with that choice. It's very toxic behavior for me to jump into a conversation and tell people they're bad for not discussing other topics I find more important.
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Re:Yann LeCun quits Twitter amid acrimonious exchanges on AI... by cxw on Tuesday June 30, 2020 @11:33PM (#23697492)
To be fair, LeCun started a discussion around bias in ML -- Gebru's reply is on topic, since statistical bias in ML is a narrow way of understanding the social impact of an algorithm. Gebru is one of the foremost scholars on that issue.
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