Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by tehjoker on Thursday December 03, 2020 @02:49PM
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You have a point, but the key difference is the US is able to export its product worldwide using the military and corporations. I don't think Mexico has the same level of power.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by gnusty_gnurc on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:10PM
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That’s circumstantial though.
My point is that these countries aren’t cosmic forces. We’re all humans that instantiate the same fundamental prejudices, instincts, biases, etc. wherever you find us.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by roflc0ptic on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:22PM
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I totally agree with that point. The cartoonish depiction was intentional, in response to the cartoonish depiction of unions. The statement is defensible in the sense that I left it wiggly: “one of the most racist orgs” is kinda vague. I’m past my “US out of North America!” Phase, and all generally irritated with one dimensional interpretations of the world, though I could still play a radical leftist on TV
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by tehjoker on Thursday December 03, 2020 @03:34PM
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I would partly agree. We're all in a single global system of social organization and it's hard to see outside that (capitalist realism). Often these divisions are sown intentionally by the upper classes. I don't want to say humans aren't shitty, but I don't think they fundamentally have to be. I think they respond to their material conditions and an appropriate kind of social organization and material support can reduce the bad stuff a lot.