Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google
by inglor_cz on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:18PM
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"she's not just another SJW."
How is this either/or? Highly educated people can still join fringe political clubs.
There is nothing about technical education that immunizes you against radical politics. At the risk of Godwinizing the reply: the engineers who built the first liquid fuelled rockets in Peenemunde were N..z..s, including the guy who was later brought into the US and built all kind of powerful and ingenious rockets there (Wernher von Braun).
How is this either/or? Highly educated people can still join fringe political clubs.
There is nothing about technical education that immunizes you against radical politics. At the risk of Godwinizing the reply: the engineers who built the first liquid fuelled rockets in Peenemunde were N..z..s, including the guy who was later brought into the US and built all kind of powerful and ingenious rockets there (Wernher von Braun).