How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into the US military (2019)

Re:How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into... by paskozdilar on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:57AM (#32316507)

Based on your definitions, would you agree that real diversity is immeasurable, and that the only way to foster real diversity is to allow "fake" diversity to thrive?

Viewing diversity as a means to an end, which is productivity, will never work without a wider context. Humans are ends to themselves, and trying to optimize for "productive" diversity will always backfire. Diversity leads to both beauty and ugliness, productivity and stagnation, [thing-you-like] and [thing-you-don't-like] - you can't have one without the other.

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Re:How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into... by jl6 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:11AM (#32316582)

I don’t know if diversity of thought/character/perspective is quantifiably measurable, but I can absolutely detect it by talking to someone for a few minutes.

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Re:How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into... by paskozdilar on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @05:41AM (#32316748)

Perhaps you can. Perhaps your detection rate is close to 100%, too.

But still, there's only one of you, so the method isn't scalable.

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Re:How a cooling vest invented by a furry made it's way into... by Gareth321 on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:47AM (#32317442)

I think this is an excellent example of why trying to create KPIs based on diversity is asinine. People should be promoted and hired on the basis of ability. That's it.

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