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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by MrBuddyCasino on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:29AM (#25313727)
> This is turning true ai research into a masquerade to push certain political agendas.

Spot on. Naive scientism is used as cloak to advance political agendas, instead of searching for truth:

"When a domain becomes respected source of Truth, there is incentive for hijackers. There is a huge window of opportunity (from decades to centuries) until the public opinion figures it out. Many (not all) still trust Harvard credentials, as Cardinal credentials in the past." [0]

This is the trend for "Believe in Science", a magical catchphrase evoked to put trust in frauds like Steven Pinker and Paul Krugman:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=believe+in+sci...

[0] https://twitter.com/_benoux_/status/1335175823620497413

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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by dash2 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:26AM (#25314039)
Calling Stephen Pinker a fraud is way over-the-top. He’s published a large number of extremely serious papers, including the paper introducing the ngrams dataset you just linked to.
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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by MrBuddyCasino on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:50AM (#25332058)
He got challenged on his statistics [0], and didn't engage, correct or retract. This is antithetical to scholarly behaviour. Pinker is an ideologue and absolutely "the Mozart of bullshit vendors".

[0] https://www.academia.edu/26772813/The_Decline_of_Violent_Con...

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