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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by whimsicalism on Friday December 04, 2020 @01:40PM (#25305999)
If the domain is AI ethics, then Yann is not a domain expert, she is. Indeed, it seems like this exact expansion of Yann's "domain" is what she is frustrated by, and you are playing exactly into it.

> the expert in your field and you have work for this person, who controls your career and compensation

Must be harder when your CEO boss has a tendency to call domain experts pedophiles, yet I see Musk praised frequently here.

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by foogazi on Friday December 04, 2020 @02:23PM (#25306524)
> Indeed, it seems like this exact expansion of Yann's "domain" is what she is frustrated by, and you are playing exactly into it.

Your description above sounds like gatekeeping to me - not saying that is the researcher’s intent - but it doesn’t seem to make for good science

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Re:Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher by whimsicalism on Friday December 04, 2020 @04:42PM (#25308489)
I'm not the one saying people who criticize "domain experts" deserve to be fired. I think both are within the realm of discourse and shouldn't be retaliated against.
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