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Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by whymauri on Thursday December 03, 2020 @12:55AM (#25285881)
>Yet, you can't go about breaking every norm and rule if you are famous and from an under-represented group.

Unless you still work at Google, how do you know she actually broke any rules? As far as I know, her e-mail to the Brain list is not public?

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Re:Ethical AI researcher Timnit Gebru fired from Google by unishark on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:05AM (#25285933)
The question is whether that Twitter exchange was an isolated outburst (of the kind that reminds us all to stay away from social media, at least using our real name) or an example of typical behavior that led to this firing.
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