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"Worse, it threatens to poison a nascent willingness"
[citation needed]
"Worse, it threatens to poison a nascent willingness"
[citation needed]
"Why is society seen as a ends, rather than a means by which we can enjoy higher productivity, safety and personal wealth."
Why, that is but one aspect of collectivism (or its fashionable synonyms). The state is your co-parent, the state is your provider, the state is what defines your contributions...
Madness.
They offered no "data", only slurs that the work done by mainstream engineers is not as "relevant to societal needs", that "better engineering for all" is to be provided by female engineers.
A delicious double entendre indeed - and if you read closely the bio of the writer, you see something similar too. Noun phrase or gerund?
"Lina Nilsson is the innovation director at the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley."
So step 1, nationalize service industries by claiming the private (free) sector can't do it; step 2, penalize the (free) individuals requiring service claiming they're using too much.
It's hard to conclude that seeking power & control wasn't behind #1 and #2 all along.
No matter what this or that expert panel wishes were true about AI research, AI work can be done in the privacy of one's own top secret lair (bedroom), so bad guys will do with it what they want to. So might as well assume that will happen, and work out how to win the arms race.
"One of the goals of any company is to manage it's workforce"
No, that may perhaps be a smaller goal of the human resources department or whatever, but the goal of the company as a whole is to make money: sell lots of good stuff at a reasonable profit. (If the "goal" were eliminating its own workforce, every company could trivially make that happen by disbanding! Profit!
We can help the automation industry by providing more incentives for business to use their widgets! March for a "living wage"!
Solution there, it seems to me, is to create a watchable program.
Your language equations are erroneous: "substantially equal" does not mean "equal in being substantial". It's not commutative.
"Maybe the universe where girls underperform in computer science and boys underperform in english language arts. Sort of like the one we're in, for example."
Is there a theory that the boys underperform in english -because of- the presence of girls?
Plus, in what universe is "computer science" substantially equal to "english language arts"?
... as should unions?
Balderdash!
UK newspapers seem to consistently have high quality coverage of issues on this side of the pond.
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