JPGalt

I was just going to comment, I have heard this before in a decade far far away

I have friends that work there. This was not a gift, the took benefits from the workers to pay for this raise. In fact they pulled all of the bonuses from the lower level employees as well as their share of stock in the company. This is a dog and pony show, nothing more.

No you can't do that either. If you are old enough to remember the 80's and 90's, these same people that are whining about plastic now are the ones that forced us to use it because paper bags were killing the trees. Oh fun fact they are also the ones that brought us trans fats as a "safe alternative" to using animal fat.

I am not sure why this point is not considered more seriously (maybe it is and I have just missed it). I feel that this article and most of the literature being written around this topic is skating around the issue without naming it. The real question here is what are we going to do when the AI we create begins to self replicate/augment their code/control logic? What are we going to do when the AI decides that in order to reduce the loss function they must act outside of the control scope and simply makes changes to it?

Some will say "not possible, how will the code recompile?" to which this article clearly answers...another AI will do it. We have to be honest with humanity here and say that we are seeking to create artificial life of which we will have no more control over than we do any other human. Oh and this new artificial life will be orders of magnitude more physically and mentally robust than us.

I have had similar issues on this site. I have had 3 high rep users of the site close a question I asked having never answered a single question in the technology I was referencing. That said I have never felt that because I was not white I was treated differently, how would anyone even know that? I guess they could go look for a profile picture before they answer?

If you have people doing that then there is a much bigger issue then what has been described by the EVP. My experience in general has been that there are a segment of users on StackOverflow that think they are better than everyone else and take every little opportunity they can to impress upon the rest of us how great they are in their own little world.

I am aware of this theoretical law but never really considered it. I suppose this could explain why I encountered such push back against a distributed SOA architecture on commodity hardware at a large organization that was built around centralized systems using mainframes.

Ultimately after three years of justifying and re-justifying the decisions I made for which they explicitly hired me for I moved on. It was abundantly clear that though they brought me in to implement SOA and lower physical costs, the culture just did not support that decision. What struck me as odd was that fact that those who hired me to do it did not seem to support it either.

I should note that Conway's law seems like a reasonable assumption as to why due to the monolithic and centralized nature of communication there. It was considered "taboo" to walk in to an executive managers office to speak to them. The expectation was to follow this ridiculously verbose chain of command whereby response to even a simple question could take days or even weeks.

cloud, deep-learning, robotics, augmented reality, computer vision, actionable analytics, RUSSIAN BOT, Internet of Things, big data, agile, design thinking, freemium, gamification, incubator, lean, SaaS, thought leader...this is enough because thinking about this is making me lose all respect for humanity.

Isn't it peculiar how this is only a thing to consider depending on which way the political winds blow? I wonder if this will still be such a concern when the winds change...I'll not hold my breath though.

I am in this same frame of mind. When I started out in development I quickly found how unwelcome my questions were. The thing these mods and many other higher rep users are forgetting about is that to the new person these not a dumb duplicate questions. If a clearly new dev(and if you are not new yourself you can tell a new dev from a mid or senior level) asks a question that is truly a duplicate in every way, a little good faith that they do not know what they do not know to the level that they did not realize I think is not to much to ask. Apparently for some of these higher rep people it is.

Further if it is actually a duplicate what harm is there to leaving it open with a link to another question that has an answer? How many times have you looked at multiple SO questions and answers to piece together something that fits your very specific use case? For me it happens that way more often then not.

This is a question that is asked quite often, there are in fact entire books dedicated to this very question. Be that as it may, in my opinion I think the answer is quite simple and not nearly as multidimensional as some would lead you to believe. Not to say that there are not multiple things you need to have right, I am just saying that it is not as many things as some would have you believe.

It is only an opinion as will be any answer you get but be that as it may, mine would be to do just four things religiously. 1. Pay them what they are actually worth or someone else will 2. When they talk, you listen 3. When they give advice, you take it 4. Give them the ability to make the right decision without having to get constant approval from you or anyone. You have stated that you are looking for people smarter and better than you so this should not be anything for you to be concerned about.

I hope you find these people and that you can keep them. It is tough to do as everyone else is looking for them as well.

That is an academically dishonest approach to this or any perceived issue. Anyone who would even begin to approach any issue in a manor as to prove a hypothesis true or untrue would follow the basic scientific method. There are many variables that account for differences in pay. Ignoring them is dishonest and will only be accepted by idiots. Sorry for the harsh words but it is true.

I would say it could be either but none the less bias is a relevant variable that should always be considered. For example, studies on say smoking or the health benefits of a pharmaceutical performed by a tobacco company or big pharma respectively are openly and voraciously discredited as bias which they should be. Anything relating to social justice of any sort is swallowed as irrefutable fact without a second thought or an ounce of critical thinking applied.

It is then regurgitated argumentum ad nauseam and any statistical (read fair and scientific) analysis of the study and its bias are attacked as anti-something, racist, misogynist etc. It is academically and morally corrupt and cannot and should not be allowed. The academic community should be vocally standing against this practice but being that they are afraid to be called a name or slur they swallow it.

People have put their political subscription above everything else and it is sickening.

Point me to the multiple variable analysis and the full report that demonstrates the clear evidence you mention. I have yet to find one and I have tried damn hard.

I would further add that the credibility of the person performing the "study" is also no longer analyzed which it should be because implicit bias is a serious factor.

Even if she did, it means nothing. The only way to assess equality is to undertake a complete multiple variable analysis of the topic. Isn't it funny how quickly we throw out the basics of the scientific method when the results are inconvenient or do not conform to the world view we are trying to subscribe to? I am not saying you are doing that just making the observation that it is clearly what is going on when this topic is "researched".

It is intellectually dishonest to cherry pick the variables that suit the answer the researcher already prescribed before the analysis even began. The entire premise of these studies is laughable until they are done and published correctly. It is not and should not be acceptable to be dishonest in this way though science has began to allow it more and more in order to not be called names...

What? You can scrape that kind of data with a simply Python application...