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Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by DoreenMichele »

lainga wrote: post #24
DoreenMichele wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US...let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin Brin was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki Her mother is American and Jewish, and her father is a Polish-born American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman He was raise…

Maybe a couple South Asian non-Jewish guys from less advantaged backgrounds? EDIT: And, if you really want to hit it out of the park, who haven't been either married or siblings to Anne at some point.

The interview is between Sam and Anne. I have no clue why the GP listed Anne's sister and ex in their comment and used that as evidence of some kind of lack of diversity. If you listed me, my sister and my ex and some guy who happened to interview me, you could make similar assertions of lack of diversity:

"Look, Doreen is a former military wife whose father was also career military. Her sister had the same father and ended up working for the US government as well, though not as a military member. And the person interviewing Doreen knows her socially because (insert connection). See? See? It's like a club or something!"

As far as I can tell, the list is completely cherry picked and I have no idea what the point of it was. Which is why I asked, which is looking like a mistake.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by berg01 »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #23
berg01 wrote: post #7

Sometimes, for people like me it's hard to keep track of who's who in tech royalty. Here's a guide of some of their connections. (My first honest reaction: it does seem fairly incestuous. And then I'm not even getting into.. well, let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US. It just feels odd to me. Diversity hasn't reached these l…

All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US...let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin Brin was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki Her mother is American and Jewish, and her father is a Polish-born American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman He was raise…

I think I'm not able to go any further than what I already wrote, I'm sorry.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by DoreenMichele »

lainga wrote: post #30
DoreenMichele wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If gender, nationality of origin, immigrant status and sexual orientation are all irrelevant ...the criticism is that successful people with similar/related careers have met and sometimes worked together? That's a little like complaining that the president has met senators.

In terms you might like better, it's like Ivanka Trump interviewing Donald at the Trump International while Jeff Sessions films them.

Is Sam Altman a blood relative of Anne's? If so, I missed that detail.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by DoreenMichele »

berg01 wrote: post #32
DoreenMichele wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of the people mentioned here belong to one particular subgroup in the US...let's say more diversity would be a great thing here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Brin Brin was born in Moscow in the Soviet Union, to Russian Jewish parents, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki Her mother is American and Jewish, and her father is a Polish-born American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman He was raise…

I think I'm not able to go any further than what I already wrote, I'm sorry.

Well, I'm very sorry to hear that because I'm genuinely baffled as to what your point is. As a woman who feels excluded and unable to get traction due to my gender, I was interested in what you were saying, but it fails to parse for me.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by wiz21c »

I can't believe what she says : can one non-doctor person be in charge of its cancer treatment (she says "be in control" in the 6 first minutes) ? Last time I read about immune system/genetics it was super complex and required a ton of background. I would definitely not want to be in control on my treatment. The best I can do is double check some facts on a few forums, have a general feeling about who takes care of me but one has to admit that's not very useful (at best it reassures me on false ideas).

Also she uses the term "consumer" in place of "patient" several times. That seems wrong to me.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by miketery »

marssaxman wrote: post #21
pdog wrote: post #2

I don't understand the bias against working on Wall Street. In fact, Wall Street is much more fun than a generic office park in Silicon Valley.

Wall Street is all about money, pursuit of money as a form of power, manipulation of money as an intellectual game abstracted away from its effects on the real world - or so goes the image of "Wall Street" as it exists in terms of having a bias against working there, or in businesses which have a similar mindset. Personally, it sounds unbearable, since money is just about the most boring topic I can imagine, done to…

Money is trust of society in you to allocate resources. It is the signal in the nervous system to make things move more or less.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by marssaxman »

miketery wrote: post #37
marssaxman wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wall Street is all about money, pursuit of money as a form of power, manipulation of money as an intellectual game abstracted away from its effects on the real world - or so goes the image of "Wall Street" as it exists in terms of having a bias against working there, or in businesses which have a similar mindset. Personally, it sounds unbearable, since money is just about the most boring topic I can imagine, done to…

Money is trust of society in you to allocate resources. It is the signal in the nervous system to make things move more or less.

That's one model, sure, but it is a simple model, it has been explored quite thoroughly over the centuries, and it seems to inevitably bring exploitation and tedium. Life is short and I have no desire to spend mine going over that well-trod terrain; I'd rather look for ways of using technology to disintermediate, to detransactionalize, to find better ways of making collective decisions and coordinating group effort which do not involve money or accounting and are therefore resistant to control and exploitation by gatekeeping institutions.

Re: Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future

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Post by carterehsmith »

projectileboy wrote: post #25

I'm surprised by the negative tone of this comment thread. I thought she had a lot of interesting things to say, both about health care as a business and about starting a startup.

Huh, that was a total waste of some 5-10-whatever minutes I spent.

The title was "Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future"

There was absolutely nothing about "How to Build the Future". Just a random blabber about whatever. 0/10

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