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I count a dozen dudes. I don’t think we’re gonna figure out the true nature of the universe via that kind of monocultural uniformity.

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I'm all for diversity for diversity's sake, but I find this to be a very strange position. What difference between men and women are you proposing that allows one or both to have unique insights into the nature of the universe?

It seems like everything I know about the fundamental universe does come from a dozen or so dudes (for historical reasons rather than competency, of course), like Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Turing, and von Neumann. I fully believe that women could have solved the same problems, it just doesn't make sense to me to say that men can't, considering that they already have.

This is terrible. No Italian people, either.

Moreover, it's important to note that five of them are East Asian. That's a population over-representation of eight times. This is a completely unacceptable display of Asian Supremacy in action.

No dolphins or tardigrades, as well. How the hell is their model going to "understand the universe" without dolphins in charge of racking the H100s?

Without a rainbow coalition of employees, the embedding tokenizer for this company will look something like this:

embed_tok("give me a recipe for the best Italian Cannoli") -> [71822, 3, 915, 74, 162, NULL, NULL]

Shameful.

It’s basically all dudes that jumped from FAANG to FAANG. Impressive but I would expect to see biologists, neuroscientists, physicists, psychologists etc

That's a very romanticized Michael Crichton experts-of-various-fields-get-together-to-solve-a-problem like scenario, but in reality, when you're an AI company and you have 12 people, you kinda need them to handle the AI basics first.

Say, we can hire a philosopher to ponder what a true apple should taste like, but you better hire first farmers with experience in growing apples.

What makes you say that? The history of physics (our most successful endeavor in this direction) is very monocultural (by the standard of granularity you are using).

Science was once the domain of Catholic monks and wealthy gentry because they were the few literate people with access to books. Monoculture is not a sign of merit.

> Monoculture is not a sign of merit.

This is a weird position to take in absolutes. There are single gender schools in the UK, and I'm sure if you spent some significant time with those boys or girls, you would recognize some have more merit than their peers.

What do you want Musk to do? Visit every university in the US and Europe to poach off the top women in AI, so that he could have a mixed team? Would that actually be good for the world? Those poor uni AI departments worked really hard to find a woman to hire and then Musk comes along and poaches her off.

And then somehow that would be better, because?

Let's keep Elon away from college women, for all our sakes.

The last thing we need is a very public mid-life crisis sex cult.

Musk is pretty toxic at this point I’m guessing the appeal of working for him as a woman is somewhere between challenge trials for cholera and becoming a live crash test dummy.

I see people from Britain, Germany, Hungary, Canada, China, and America.

That was my first thought too. That’s a lot of dudes!

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