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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by devy on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:24PM (#25305066)
This above is very intolerable in Corporate America. First and foremost, she works for the corporation and get paid, no matter how great she is, she has to follow the corporate culture and norms or she won't be surviving in Corporate America.

Stanford Business School professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a book about this[1] in particular.

[1]: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24331490-leadership-bs

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by whimsicalism on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:27PM (#25305119)
> Stanford Business School professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote a book about this[1] in particular.

A book about how toxic this is and how it needs to change, right? This small detail seems sort of missing from your comment.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by devy on Friday December 04, 2020 @06:03PM (#25309496)
Yes. I am just stating a fact. And do you see a change?
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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by throwaway2245 on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:43PM (#25305350)
>she works for the corporation and get paid, no matter how great she is, she has to follow the corporate culture and norms

Doesn't this cut both ways? Google employed her to critique the company's ethics; she is critiquing the company's ethics - as such, she is literally doing the job she was employed to do.

If Google doesn't want that role to exist or wants a puppet to do it, why did Google employ her in the first place?

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by damnencryption on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:53PM (#25305475)
Same way google and big tech companies fund pro-privacy groups. The intent is not to have stronger privacy laws that doesn't benefit them.
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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by minikites on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:28PM (#25305130)
>she has to follow the corporate culture and norms or she won't be surviving in Corporate America

"Corporate culture" isn't fixed, the whole point is that it needs changing.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by JamesBarney on Friday December 04, 2020 @12:53PM (#25305480)
"Corporate culture" is a culture of bland, and empty niceties, with a veneer of politeness and it's 100% needed so that a large corporation can focus on getting things done without every interaction turning into twitter.

Hacker news also requires a certain amount of politeness in the way you speak and it's one of the many reasons the discourse is better than twitter.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by PascLeRasc on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:30PM (#25306590)
What makes you think our discourse is better? We have plenty of low-quality comments (see this one for an example) and nearly every thread goes off-topic (like what we're discussing now).
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