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    Comment #25519833

    What is the product the math department would be pressuring it's members to protect? I’m not sure about math, but in physics it would be string theory which has been a dead end and…

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    Comment #25519815

    The policy existed, management just assumed that they would implicitly understand that they shouldn’t work on research that will knee-cap Google. Of course, they also hired unhinge…

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    Comment #25519786

    When have trillion dollar companies not been authoritarian in protecting and furthering their own corporate interests?

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    Comment #25508274

    ”employers know the difference between the bird courses and the ones with real meat on the bones.” I’ve never been asked my GPA or what courses I took. Most of my interviews have b…

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    Comment #25489929

    It’s a negative presence because it presents the moral degeneration of society. Do we really want to hold sex work in the same regard as being an entrepreneur or doctor? What kind …

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    Comment #25489884

    Your meta comment is also boring and unoriginal. GPT-3 itself could’ve generated it

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    Comment #25457087

    [flagged]

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    Comment #25457066

    I don’t want to work activists, neither do the majority of my colleagues at Google that I speak with. If you want to be an activist, go join a non-profit.

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    Comment #25457052

    She wasn’t fired for trying to publish the paper. She threatened to resign if her demands were met, so Google pre-empted it by accepting her resignation. The narrative around her b…

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    Comment #25457037

    If she didn’t send an ultimatum threatening to resign, she would still be at Google. The reality is that Timnit thrives on drama and attention. That’s how she remains relevant. Loo…

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    Comment #25457012

    Google reaped what it sowed by hiring a toxic employee like Timnit whose had a history of tantrums on Twitter.