Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by ar15saveslives 3373 days ago
> The importance of diversity is beyond reasonable doubt, isn’t it?

Why?

2 comments

Translation: "if you don't agree with this, you are not being reasonable"
Great argument, can be applied to anything.
Well yeah, anything that someone says is "beyond a reasonable doubt" when they're referring to something that as nuanced as "diversity".
It could give a greater range of insight and experience to a problem.

Also, it is easy to optimise for diversity, and fiendishly difficult to optimise for other more subtle aspects of human behaviour.

> it is easy to optimise for diversity

only in the most crude, ham-fisted way though.

it's extremely hard to find people who actually break the groupthink. it's extremely hard to even identify your own groupthink blind spots, let alone cover them with people with genuinely different perspectives. the crude diversity solution seems highly likely to select for people with superficial differences but core similarities.

Yes it is extremely hard, which may make the ham-fisted way more practical.
The diversity that actually adds something to the understating of a problem, is the diversity of ideas and points of view. Putting different races, genders, sexual orientations, etc, just for the sake of appearing diverse, adds nothing to solve any problem.
you've hypothesized reasons why something should be automatically accepted, which is funny in cosmic poetry sense, but not terribly evidentiary.
How can you provide evidence to support a philosophical viewpoint? Such questions are unavoidably subjective.
How can one say an unavoidably subjective viewpoint is beyond doubt?

And this is not merely philosophical. The notion of improvement can be validly measured in many disciplines, and this is true in many disciplines that are under scrutiny for their lack of particular genitalia.