Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity

Post by mbrodersen » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 12:55 AM UTC

kafkaesq wrote: post #324

josteink wrote: post #271

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> it's core, it was very unscientific He was very good at sourcing almost every single one of his claims with references to published scientific studies. Your statement on the other hand has zero quotes to support your claim. I know which one I will consider "unscientific".

Your statement on the other hand has zero quotes to support your claim. Whether a claim (or other statement) someone makes is "scientific" or not is, fundamentally, a matter of the soundness and logical coherence of the overall argument they're making. And about the aspects of the issue they sidestep and ignore (and this guys ignores a whole lot in his manifesto, actually) as much as the aspects they cite. Not the nu…

You clearly don't understand how science works.

Post by someguydave » Fri, Aug 11, 2017, 5:29 AM UTC

amazingman wrote: post #275

amyjess wrote: post #112

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I call that society's natural immune system.

I am fond of the immune system analogy, myself, when it comes to putting environmental (i.e. social) pressure on bad ideas in real time. Like anything else, however, striking the right balance and behaving ethically are vital companions to the application of this pressure. There was no balance here, and the vitriolic mob response was full of unethical behavior. I’m usually at least somewhat amenable to the “but the b…

As someone on the right, I fear that this episode will be interpreted by folks on the right as extremely threatening. People who feel cornered and threatened and silenced are exactly the kind of people who would give themselves over to an authority who promises to rescue them from threats.

They might think something like this: "The very wealthy people who control a sizable portion of the Internet and hold vast influence in society hate me. They would gladly ruin me even if I gently express a rational and benign version of what I really think."

My point: be very careful about making threats in reaction to benign speech. People might take you seriously.

Re: Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity

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