Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties
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#2Kind of sad.
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#3I was really hoping that this article was going to talk about some kind of machine-learned model that had been used to improve holiday parties. My hopes, dashed against the shores of reality.
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#4Nothing new, this has been happening for a long time. They are called atmosphere models.
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#5This isn’t new.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2014/03/04/the-d...
They’ve been flying women to San Francisco for dates.
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#6sounds awful
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#7Pathetic. The whole point is to celebrate with the employees and their families and recognize the hard work everyone has put in over the year. A stranger not connected to an employee would take away from that value.
If you want more women at the event, hire more women at the company and create a culture that encourages that.
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#8Yes, this practice of models at parties brings back memories. In 2000, a very well-known enterprise software company (Northeast not Silicon Valley) hosted a conference for customers and had a night party for the attendees. The most memorable thing I remember was the group of extremely pretty women on roller skates mingling with the crowd. E.g. they'd skate up and ask random attendees, "Hey where are you from? Are you enjoying the party?"
It's very strange how a logical brain processes what's happening. One the one hand, your rational brain says they're just paid to be there to loosen up the crowd and their smiles and questions to the attendees are fake. On the other hand, your emotional brain doesn't care and you smile and laugh back anyway. It's like the Disney World effect. You know it's a facade but enjoy yourself anyway!
Re: Silicon Valley Is Sneaking Models into This Year’s Holiday Parties
#9Nothing new, this has been happening for a long time. They are called atmosphere models.
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#10This is not new for sure, but it deserves discussion in light of the #metoo movement. In SV we're supposed to be innovators, why aren't we leading the way towards a more equal society? If our holiday parties are boring because we've hired a masculine monoculture, then maybe the solution is to hire more diverse people the entire year. It's objectifying to women and minorities if the only time we're hired is to make something more exciting for a few hours.