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		tilolebo on Dec 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of ... This. It was literally her job to conduct such research. It's not politics, it's ethics (tethics)

tobr on Dec 5, 2020 [–]

Ethics is not not politics though. Everything is political. Claiming that ethical concerns should impact business decisions is certainly political. We can wish to “not discuss politics in the workplace”, but then it isn’t really possible to have any discussion.

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