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> So what would be the benefits in DNA diversity at all?

Well, this is a pretty contrived example, but IIRC a major company (HP?) made facial-recognition software that couldn't handle people with dark skin.

If there had been people like that on the dev or testing team, perhaps it would have been noticed earlier.

That story is apocryphal. The software in question simply struggled with low contrast images like a dark face in a dark room, which isn't due to racism or employees forgetting that black people exist: it's an inherently hard image recognition problem.

Are you seriously arguing companies should be entirely white and male because then there won't be sexism and racism problems?!

And are you aware that non-DNA differences also create divisions?

> would be the benefits in DNA diversity at all

I would argue there's often correlation between these types of diversity