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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by mcphage on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:10PM (#25293122)
> We should hire by skill alone

Since you can't actually calculate someone's skill, all you can do is hire on an attempted measurement of skill. And if you find reasons to think that your measurement of skill has inaccuracies, you'd probably be better off taking that into account when evaluating a candidate.

Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by tkfu on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:24PM (#25293333)
Yes! I'm not shocked to see that this response is the one that gets downvoted instead of the chorus of content-free agreements, but that's HN for you.