Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal

Re:Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal by monoideism on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:23AM (#25370081)

It really degraded that much. It's always been of the left, but used to be fairly even handed and not as openly ideological.

I know what happened - if you've followed what's happening in our universities the past decade, that mostly explains it (see cases like Weinstein at Evergreen, and Christakis at Yale).

Those students have graduated and are influencing the newsroom at NYT and elsewhere.

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Re:Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal by thinkingemote on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:31PM (#25380237)

I put the spotlight on Twitter, it's a source of the news, contains reaction to the news, and it's populated by the same culture as the journalists.

So it's a quick and easy way to write stories to a guaranteed audience.

Of course the decline of print newspapers and online advertising etc is at root.

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Re:Google Chief Apologizes for A.I. Researcher’s Dismissal by monoideism on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:43AM (#25384307)

I agree Twitter has had an outsized impact, and amplifies all these issues.

But the root cause is an identity/race-centered ideology that has taken root in our "elite" universities.

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