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There is no evidence the average Chinese person is "much more capable" than the average American. And the Chinese were evidently not "diligent" enough to shut down wet markets despite years of repeated warnings from epidemiologists, nor were these civil servants forthright enough about what was happening fast enough to prevent spreading this illness to other countries.

Stereotypes in either direction are dangerous, unfounded, and unproductive.

The bottleneck is a lack of people to actually use ventilators an not just a lack of equipment though

You're not accounting for the fact that (so) many porn performers are victims of sex trafficking, coerced into doing porn when not even or barely 18, and/or unable to escape the profession (because they fear for their safety, or the fact that they are unhireable into many professions with only porn on their resumes).

They're not the ones making a decision at all and what I describe is exceedingly common.

Cardiac health is correlated with mental health/happiness

You're delusional

Use it as a reference

Jean Gallier (the author, and a CS prof at Penn) is quite the character. Also a very nice guy who cares a lot of about teaching. W Wish I'd read (some of) this book before I started my PhD!

Me too, re:having children. my childhood abuse is the main reason I'm resistant to marrying and having kids.

"Objectification" can be used for any kind of dehumanization, and not only the sexual kind

Preposterous. Where exactly did I suggest this? What I'm saying this in no way will "fully solve" the climate crisis and I'm afraid that presenting this approach as a complete solution will lull people into a false sense of security and complacency.

A lot of the claims made in this piece are very exaggerated re: potential to address climate change

So where exactly does the article say this method will stop the climate crisis?

It doesn't, because it's not true as the ETH reseachers are well aware and will readily tell you. As I mentioned in my post, trees ALONE will not stop the climate crisis because the only thing they'll really help with is CO2 absorption, and climate change is driven by more than just C)2 levels.

Half of the academic computer science community is autistic and not attractive, and the vast majority of them somehow manages to refrain from making female colleagues and students constantly uncomfortabe, provoking outrage by doubting the well-supported testimony of a child sex abuse victim, and so forth.

Trees help, but alone won't "stop" the climate crisis, and wont do anything to combat the worst greenhouse gases.

>Neurotypical people don’t like autistic people,

Oh this is hilarious. Do you realize how many people -- not just men -- in CS, physics, mathematics are autistic, especially in places like MIT? Places like that are teeming with autistic people who somehow manage not to make their students and colleagues uncomfortable. I'll even be so bold as to claim neurotypicals are actually a minority in some of those subjects.

This is really strange atempt to spin his firing as some sort of evidence that autistic men are being oppressed in CS academia and tech. As anyone who's been in either of those environmets, that's clearly NOT the case.

Is this a joke? This is disgusting.

You don't have to work in the field to help. In fact, might be effective to go through established channels. I recommend giving money to proven nonprofits (do your research and read disclosure documents before you do) that help at-risk youths from the projects develop job skills and stay out of jail.

I support and train at a gym that employs at-risk youth and reformed criminals and trains them to become personal trainers with the appropriate certs. It's run by a guy who used to work with these kids in the hood and has devoted his life to this cause. Graduates of his training program enjoy significantly lower rates of recidivism. I feel great about being able to help out as a person with a good salary in tech (and the young trainees/formerly imprisoned youths I've met through the program are absolutely phenomenal people).

Most of this is an outright fabrication. Marry their cousin????

I've never believed that will never actually happen. For all of turkeys public relations efforts pushing their euro identify, European countries don't care for the Turks, don't identify with them culturally, and will never allow it. Erdogan doesn't help their cause either, obviously.

Uh, an engineering degree from a good school confers plenty of status in some of the countries we are duscussing, in which teens stop socializing their last year of high school to prepare for college entrance exams

And we can be similarly reductive about any profession. Lawyers are just paper pushers, academics are glorified grant Chasers, and so on

Iranian women have been historically been very well-educated, and this predates the Islamic republic. They've been churning out lots of female engineers and physicians for some time. I know women well into their 70s who are graduates of med school in Tehran and practicing in the US for e.g.

I'm not sure how you can hypothesize these things without any historical and cultural context

Yep. Anti-usa sentiment (and posters here are seriously overestimating any such sentiment imo) was originally rooted in the reaction to the CIA-backed coup that overthrew a progressive, democratically elected prime minister and effectively installed of the shah, regarded by many as a despot, who was of course on fabulous terms with the US.

To me, the direction of the causal arrow is unclear. Was he able to throw money at MIT (and fulfill his fantasy of scientific/academic relevance) because he was a pimp, or did his involvement with these universities allow him to get closer to powerful people whom he'd manipulate with the offer of sex from young women? I agree that it's hard to definitely say because we're still unsure how exactly Epstein made his money.

Jesus. I do have to wonder why exactly Harvard is not getting lashed by the press too? They were even more entangled with Epstein from the sounds of it.

Many scientists make similar decisions every day, in the sense they spend much of their writing proposal after for proposal for research money from organizations whose missions they feel deeply troubled by (chiefly military/defense in the States)

Apparently used electronic medical records from a hospital in England without proper permissions, which got DeepMind into hot water with the government.

I mean the first result of that search for me says it was created in Baghdad, but by a Persian mathematician

Haynes Miller who I think is still around (math dept) is a good person with tons of integrity who cared a lot about me as an undergrad, and was very devoted to teaching undergrads in an accessible way. Mike artin (algebra Prof) is a fabulous lecturer and human being too --he's emeritus but hangs around campus a ton. Two of the few bright spots of my depressing years at the institute.