I'm sorry it's so funny for a computer scientist to say "I teach computer science and politics has no place in it" Well unlike you I do research with the people who are deepest trapped inside the computers and they will not STOP talking politics to me - ThreadSky

grimalkina.bsky.social • 6 days ago

I'm sorry it's so funny for a computer scientist to say "I teach computer science and politics has no place in it" Well unlike you I do research with the people who are deepest trapped inside the computers and they will not STOP talking politics to me

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racckiteering.bsky.social•5 days ago

As if how things are used is completely disconnected from the thing itself. I will never understand the instinct to scrub away the complexities of how the sciences interact with actual people.

grimalkina.bsky.social•6 days ago

*it's more likely than you think Free PC Check meme here*

jasoncdaniels.bsky.social•6 days ago

I know, right? Literally everything humans do has a political context in which it happens. That context, to an extent, shapes what happens. There is no divorcing the two.

jackmott.bsky.social•6 days ago

everything is politics

ljones.xyz•6 days ago

What pisses me off is folks in open source saying shit like that as if the entire GNU and FOSS foundation wasn’t a fucking political statement

yvonnezlam.bsky.social•6 days ago

They are *lonely* because everyone has been telling them not to talk about politics, or even vaguely human things, at work, and they have so much pent up conversation about those things!

noahlz.bsky.social•6 days ago

Encryption algorithms are treated as weapons by governments, idk but I'm pretty sure that's political

the-ballmer-peak.bsky.social•6 days ago

Elon named one of his kids after an encryption algorithm.

petervaladez.bsky.social•5 days ago

When you say people are “trapped inside the computers”, are you talking about AI personalities literally inside computers, or people who work in the industry?

Sorry if it comes off as a dumb question. I can see how llm’s could be perceived as being political.

grimalkina.bsky.social•5 days ago

nah this was a joking way I was describing people who work with the problems of software and hardware and computing

petervaladez.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thanks for responding… that makes more sense 😅.

tdietterich.bsky.social•6 days ago

Of course everything has a political context and every scientist is biased. But that doesn’t mean every scientist should seek to maximize the political aspect of their work or the degree of bias in their results

grimalkina.bsky.social•6 days ago

Where are you reading that in what I'm saying?

grimalkina.bsky.social•6 days ago

Also, I have no choice in how my expertise and life's work is politicized

https://bsky.app/profile/grimalkina.bsky.social/post/3lo77e2et6s26

grimalkina.bsky.social•6 days ago

This also feels relevant:

https://bsky.app/profile/victorerikray.bsky.social/post/3lob7zskafk2c

aetataureate.bsky.social•6 days ago

not gonna @ the guy but i'm shocked he suggested that researchers are "maximiz[ing] the degree of bias in their results" in the way he suggests

aetataureate.bsky.social•6 days ago

what a political comment to make, ironically!!!

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