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  1. James Damore’s defenders (updated)
    (recently saw a post claiming that Damore's firing was an indication of closed minds at Google, so it seemed important to repos this - vy)

    The Google manifesto  is a crackpot political argument combined with basic scientific ignorance, not a scientific argument.  The people claiming other
    yodaiken.com/2017/08/16/the-cr
    #academics #business #SoftwareBusiness #damore #GoogleManifesto #ScottAaronson #StuartReges

  2. CW: Probability and public policy

    During the #Damore fiasco, I was amazed at how many supposedly well educated programmers were unable to understand what random means - so even if their bogus claim of some talent advantage for males had been true, it didn't have any implications for the gender diversity of Google tech and tech management employment. More recently both covid alarmists and deniers don't grasp basic things. People are bad at basic abstraction.