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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by gnusty_gnurc on Thursday December 03, 2020 @07:58PM (#25297677)
I think there’s definitely a dynamic in any dogmatic arena (social justice is dogma heaven) where the most pathological people thrive.

In the high-dogma arena there’s incredibly easy and visible signals that give you the ability to appear like “one of the good ones.”

I think coincidentally this is highly attractive to elite circles too. Follow all the social justice rituals and shibboleth and you suddenly get the camouflage of an empathetic, good person.

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by rbanffy on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:56AM (#25301350)
> Follow all the social justice rituals and shibboleth and you suddenly get the camouflage of an empathetic, good person.

If a person is indistinguishable from a good human being, isn't it actually a good human being?

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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by username90 on Friday December 04, 2020 @07:11AM (#25301432)
No, plenty of rapists and abusers etc do all the social justice rituals.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by rbanffy on Sunday December 06, 2020 @06:35AM (#25322839)
Then they are distinguishable by observable behavior.
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Re:AI researcher Timnit Gebru resigns from Google by gnusty_gnurc on Friday December 04, 2020 @09:08AM (#25302333)
It's like they didn't read any I wrote - or just demonstrated how much the woke let down their guard if people shut up and do whatever they say.
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