Guest essay by Eric Worrall
h/t Breitbart; Google Employees have sent a petition to Management demanding an offer to Conservative Climate Skeptic Kay Cole James to sit on Google’s AI Ethics Council be withdrawn.
Inside the Google employee backlash against the Heritage Foundation
‘They think that some of our colleagues either do not or should not exist’
By Colin Lecher@colinlecher Apr 1, 2019, 12:06pm EDTWhen Google announced an external advisory board for AI projects last week, the company framed the decision as a step forward in accountability. Last year, the company had announced a set of principles for how to build AI tools, and this board, the company suggested, was the next step toward a more transparent Google.
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But some members of the new board drew immediate scrutiny, especially Kay Coles James, president of the conservative Heritage Foundation. On social media, some characterized the decision as an attempt to cater to conservatives at the expense of true expertise in the field. By Saturday, one AI expert who was invited to the board had dropped out, vaguely noting that it may not be “the right forum” for the work.
Privately, several Google employees were also livid about the decision to include James, according to sources familiar with the discussions. On internal message boards, employees described James as “intolerant” and the Heritage Foundation as “amazingly wrong” in their policies on topics like climate change, immigration, and, particularly, on issues of LGBTQ equality. A person with James’ views, the employees said, “doesn’t deserve a Google-legitimized platform, and certainly doesn’t belong in any conversation about how Google tech should be applied to the world.”
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By the end of the day on Tuesday, more than 1,600 Google employees had endorsed the petition, organizers said. Google did not respond to a request for comment.
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“By appointing James to the ATEAC, Google elevates and endorses her views, implying that hers is a valid perspective worthy of inclusion in its decision making,” the letter from employees reads. “This is unacceptable.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/1/18290341/google-heritage-foundation-ai-kay-coles-james
What I find breathtaking is the sheer arrogance.
They still haven’t learned; despite the utter humiliation of trying and failing to secure a Democrat victory in 2016, the elitists at Google still think they can indulge their personal prejudices at the expense of their business, and completely disregard the needs of vast numbers of their users, to the extent they don’t want Google management to even pretend to be more inclusive.
[ctm note This story is bizarre enough that one may be skeptical. Because of this, I’ve added supporting links below]
https://medium.com/@against.transphobia/googlers-against-transphobia-and-hate-b1b0a5dbf76
https://ironholds.org/google-ai/
https://twitter.com/annaeveryday/status/1110643653062459392
I am a Marxist. Of the Groucho faction. 🤣
I don’t know anything about Kay James but I do know the heritage foundation has a fairly strong libertarian bent and if that is the case then to call her intolerant is ridiculous, libertarians have always been the champion of everyone having a right to live their life their way long before LGTQ+ whatever came along, long before it became a progressive coalition building propaganda toy. I was raised as a libertarian and when progressives were still playing with ideas like eugenics i was being taught to respect everyone for who they are and that government or other citizens should not have any say in how someone chooses to live their life.
I am so sick of these ridiculous intolerant progressive A-holes and their self righteous BS, they are without a doubt the most intolerant group in the world.
Google prides itself on diversity and inclusion. Unless it is diversity of thought. James Damore found that out.
That observation applies to liberals in general.
George Orwell predicted the power of a society without permanent records in his visionary book “1984”. A Ministry of Truth keeps purging all inconvenient facts from the one and only official history. Google is now in an ideal position to be the Ministry of Truth over the Internet. If a search for an inconvenient fact returns it buried at a position 2345, no one will ever find it.
Dr. Goebbels, the Minister of Propaganda for the Third Reich was not a Google employee, but “progressives” at Google are following in his steps. A lie repeated one thousand times becomes truth. Won’t they fight tooth and nail to retain their influence?
Already purging unwanted history from Wikipedia.
Startpage is fairest search engine…IMHO.
Doesn’t it just repackage google results?
If you want to do terrible things to people, you need an urgent justification.
And somehow the social religions (e.g., climate communism) always find one.
The fact employees think they can do this no problem, there is your issue right there.
A raft of people turfed on the sidewalk with their sandals and wheat-grass latte, no more petitions
I’m no lawyer, but when those 1600 employees signed that hateful, intolerant, bigoted petition….. did they violate any moral conduct clauses in their contract?
Does Google really need those close minded people who are violently opposed to diversity (of ideas and opinions)?
Look at what the wisdom of the Federal Government did with Natural Gas Price regulation. http://naturalgas.org/regulation/history/
Yes at first it helped the consumer, then it hurt the consumer even worse than it ever saved them. A perfect example of good intions causing worse problems than doing nothing. Same is happening with NG today but do to other people trying to fix a non existent problem. And with the Green Energy farce calling Wood a renewable – which releases more CO2 than coal, along with not declaring or classifying Nuclear as a “Renewable” based upon the fact that it produces LESS CO2 than Wind means that the Nuclear power plants are shutting down and making the CO2 emissions WORSE. brainless. But it makes more GREEN for those selling Wind and Solar, and makes YOU pay more for your electricity. Good luck in solving the problem – especially when they are NOT using the only method that has a possibility to solve the problem within the next 50 years. That is what makes me “Believe” that CO2 is a Myth, If it was a real problem then FReal solutions that could be implemented in time to solve the problem would be implemented.
I have be training comments with someone that really believes the Rectennas. [Nanotube antennas that capture the photon wave and turn it into electricity like a radio antenna receives radio signals and gives iou a TV picture.] He truly believes these will be providing all of are electricity in less than 25 years. Yet there is NO, not a single, existing working demonstration of this. The literature I have found reads like a Con Stock Prospectus.
Year in, year out, liberals/leftists/socialists demonstrate their utter hatred towards anyone who disagrees with them.
While demanding that others respect them and their views, they reject the notion that they should themselves practice what they preach.
It isn’t any wonder how it should be that people of that ilk are responsible for nearly 100 million of deaths over the last century.
100 million post-birth deaths in the West, and hundreds of millions more around the world, but human evolution begins with choice, not spontaneous conception. Atheism, liberalism, and progressive leaps have been a toxic combination that have enabled minority ruling classes around the world. It’s the denial of individual dignity (e.g. diversity), intrinsic value (e.g. selective-child, one-child), and suppression of competing interests that creates a climate of forward-looking catastrophic risk.
Notice that the word, “Google”, has the word, “goo”, in it.
A synonym for “goo” is “sludge”.
So, remember, the next time you do a “Google” search, you might come up with sludge.
The oval (bent) umpire.
Wrong vid. sorry…Mod please delete?
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Hopefully SOMEONE in high Google management will point out to the snowflakes who are ‘offended’ by the presence of anyone who disagrees with their view (about anything) that they are permitted to feel that way ONLY if those ‘others’ are also permitted to feel the same way about them.
It is called the Golden Rule – and it works! Get over it!
They will live through it and be better off because of it.
These Googlet’s are angry because they have been lied to about “climate change” and they are still in denial about it. It is human nature to blame someone else for your own gullibility, instead of doing some self-reflection that may put a few dents in your self-image. And self-image is what gets software engineers out of bed in the morning.
They are smart enough to know the Emperor has no clothes, but unwilling to be singled out by the angry mob, that is unwilling to investigate what they don’t WANT TO FIND.
There is a reason that software engineers don’t do system test on their own code. They don’t want to find problems with the code they wrote, and they will find very little of what they don’t WANT TO FIND.
And when someone else finds problems they get angry. It is not bigotry, or hate for the other person. It is human nature.
When someone else shows you are wrong, the first response is not “acceptance”, it is “denial”. Then comes anger directed at the one that exposed your failing.
These employees still have several stages to go before they can come to terms with the grief they feel. Until then their actions will remain irrational.
This might be an example of Google’s bias. Try it and report your results.
Back story: I was reading a political article and the author stated that Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, had stated that 34% of the attendees at the Michigan rally the other day were Democrats. There was a link. The link went to a 404 Not Found. I read a lot of political articles and hadn’t seen this reported, which I found surprising since the 34% figure would be huge news. So I performed the following search in Google:
“Brad Parscale 34 percent at Michigan rally were Democrats”
The response was one relevant article listing (out of the top ten) and it went to another 404 page.
Then I went to duckduckgo.com and to Bing.com. Both returned several relevant articles as top results, and clicking on them went to actual articles.
Next, I went back to Google and re-entered the search. This time I got several relevant results. That made me question the first result. Maybe I entered it wrong? Curious, no?
I had someone repeat the result today from a different computer and ISP and they experienced the same thing. Sparse results at Google and several from duckduckgo.
If this is really happening across the board, Congress is too divided to address it, but a lawsuit from ostracized websites might find a sympathetic judge and jury. And the awarded damages could be huge when you consider the advertising revenue that those sites are losing as a result.
I’m surprised Google didn’t invite Peter Gleick to join this council, I’m sure his well-known levels of honesty and toleration of different opinions would have been entirely acceptable to these disgruntled employees.
The first step to freedom: Don’t say ‘google’, say ‘search’.
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The same thing happened with tissue paper and Kleenex, photocopy and Xerox, but they did not have effective monopolies in their space, and weren’t peddling a transhuman ideology, quasi-moral philosophy, and politically convenient science under a veil of euphemisms and Choice.
Diversity or color judgments (e.g. racism, sexism, genderism) is exclusive breeds adversity.
I’m a conservative and I worked for 12 years in Silicon Valley. The culture is definitely far left but most are reasonably tolerant of Conservatives. The problem is that there is a substantial vocal minority who are full on crazy, intolerant and hateful.