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I find it interesting how, in the other current thread about an antitrust suit against Google (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25448718) that people there are criticizing Google's lack of ethics, and in this thread people are criticizing a team in Google whose goal is to try to get Google to act more ethically.

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Ethics is a large subject, people can be interested in certain branches and not others.

I guess the 'bias and inequality in AI' is less striking a cord for the HN crowd than 'fair business practices'

> I guess the 'bias and inequality in AI' is less striking a cord for the HN crowd than 'fair business practices'

That is interesting. I wonder if it indicates something about the demographics of HN.

Yep, we’re all rich racist WASPs, you got us.

More seriously, it probably does indicate something about the political sentiment of users of HN who comment, which may indirectly indicate something about demographics. A direct link is tenuous.

> Yep, we’re all rich racist WASPs.

Hmm. That was a strange, but interesting jump indeed.

> A direct link is tenuous

That could be.

It wasn't "strange" or a "jump". You explicitly state that focusing on business practices over (ethnic and/or gender) bias implies something about HN's demographics. My comment is literally (well, okay, it was exaggerated) what you wrote in your comment, but with different words.

Enough with your racist dog whistles.

A flawed comparison; the ethical issues discussed in that thread and the things the AI group is complaining about are non-overlapping.

Multiple statements can be true at the same time:

1. Google has a lack of ethics.

2. Google's ethics team is not doing a good job.

I'm not saying either of these are true. But if they are, there's no contraction here. In fact, 2 would support 1.

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