Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by benhurmarcel on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:17PM
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"Millenials" have been entering the industry for more than 15 years now. Don't put an entire generation in the same basket as a few visible people.
Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by gnusty_gnurc on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:31PM
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Yea it's a broad/inaccurate catch-all, but I'm a millenial and I feel like when I was in college (early 2010s) you were beginning to see illiberal attitudes on campus start to take off and normalize.
Like stigmatizing advocates of free expression, a general embrace of safety-ism, scream invectives until the bureaucracy buckles tactics, etc.
Yea there is something uniquely activist academic about all these complaints you see surfacing nowadays.
As though millenials are landing in industry now and they're surprised their employers are companies selling products and not activist organizations.
And you're right it's even funnier when the people complaining are urbane academics from elite institutions outraged that they don't unquestionable authority to enact policy.