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by dragonwriter 1979 days ago
> The most recent drama was about a researcher having her quitting ultimatum called by a manager.

No, it wasn’t. Even to the extent that might be considered a superficially correct description of part of what happened, its not the center of the “drama”, which is more centrally about the treatment which led up to that.
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kortilla 1979 days ago
But that’s the point. The “treatment leading up to that” was a mid 6 figure income and nearly free reign to do research in her field of interest. Not relatable to most of the lower or middle class in the US.
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dragonwriter 1979 days ago
> The “treatment leading up to that” was a mid 6 figure income and nearly free reign to do research in her field of interest.

No, the proximately preceding treatment was restrictions on her research that were inconsistent with those imposed on other Google AI researchers (the extent to which that is due to its subject matter, the extent to which it is due to her internal advocacy on gender and race issues, and the extent to which it is due to her own race and sex is unclear.)

> Not relatable to most of the lower or middle class in the US.

Being singled out for adverse treatment either for raising issues related to gender or race equity or for one’s gender or race are, actually, quite relatable to lots of the lower and middle class in the US, certainly including those in that group who are also black and/or women.

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kortilla 1979 days ago
It being about her gender was heavily disputed even inside of Google. The only thing that can be agreed on was that her research publication was restricted by Jeff Dean and co.

The fact that there isn’t really any direct evidence of gender bias in this case is why this is so unrelatable.

A likely millionaire being asked to defer a last minute publication is not even something that would register as an annoyance to the huge portion of the US workforce that doesn’t give two shits about their job.

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