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Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by square_usual on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:43AM (#25285810)
It's not "reasonable" to assume "she picked a fight". It's not "reasonable" to fire someone for "picking a fight", whatever that is. It's awful how people are willing to be so charitable to Google here after doing the exact opposite in Damore's case.
Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by bigbubba on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:47AM (#25286587)
People get fired for picking fights all the time. You say that's not reasonable, but what's reasonable about subjecting all the other employees at a company to somebody who picks fights?
Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by SpicyLemonZest on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:12AM (#25285980)
It's not really about charity to Google. I just don't consider her Twitter feed a trustworthy source of information, given her general frequency of toxic Twitter drama and her extended, bad faith attack on LeCun. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Google was in the wrong here, and if they are I hope she gets some kind of justice, but I don't think we can just take her word for it.
Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by visarga on Thursday December 03, 2020 @10:52AM (#25290046)
Yeah, after that episode I blacklisted her on my Twitter.
Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by mam2 on Thursday December 03, 2020 @05:09AM (#25287455)
At least Google was consistent: it fired both people who were causing too much trouble.

(BTW This is actually the fun part of the Damore story: the guy think he is smart by explaining how "evolution" makes gender different but misses the ABSOLUTE main point of evolution which is that "to survive to an environement you must fit in it". He didn't fit in the google environement, he got fired.)

Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by jldugger on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:36PM (#25291709)
He's just seeking a different niche :troll: