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Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by tptacek on Saturday December 05, 2020 @06:59PM (#25319611)
No, I'm sorry, the high horse you're trying to ride here just isn't going to hold the weight of the ideological argument you tried to make. Timnit Gebru was severed from Google because of a conflict between her and the research practices at Google. Moreover, the story begins with her offering an ultimatum and Google preemptively accepting her resignation. No part of this story reasonably involves the "gender differences" and "difficult truths" you're invoking.

Dropping boilerplate ideological provocations onto unrelated threads isn't good-faith conversation. Whether you mean it to be or not, it has the effect of trolling, and on HN, trolling is a strict-liability offense; your mens rea matters less than the outcome.

Please don't do things like this on HN.

Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by idlewords on Sunday December 06, 2020 @12:36PM (#25325032)
Probably fairer to say she was severed because the fruits of her research are irreconcilable with the company's peaceful enjoyment of its core business model. The sudden commitment to research practices (as documented elsewhere in this thread) being a fig leaf for that less comfortable truth.
Re:We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google by tptacek on Sunday December 06, 2020 @01:21PM (#25325357)
I agree, for what it's worth.