Patrons Only: An Anima-Tronic Controversy And Some Wheel Of Topics Goodness
This one's a little bit scattered but doesn't that just add to the charm?!?!?!?
-Katie explains her idea for a dystopian novel about bloggers and coronavirus
-Jesse explains last week's fierce internet slapfight between computer researchers Anima Anandkumar and Pedro Domingos, which featured Anandkumar's personal enemies list (lotsa students and early-career researchers) and which definitely WASN'T about dysfunctional personalities poisoned by Twitter and definitely DOES have major ramifications for the future of the very ideal of social justice itself
-Something about Andrea Long Chu
-"Queer neo-identities"?
-Proud Boys/Antifa???!
Whatever they can't all be winners.
Show notes/Links:
GeekWire: Retired UW computer science professor embroiled in Twitter spat over AI ethics and ‘cancel culture’ - https://www.geekwire.com/2020/retired-uw-computer-science-professor-embroiled-twitter-spat-ai-ethics-cancel-culture/
Jesse's Twitter thread on the whole thing (see Tweet #6 for the original Enemies List announcement): https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1338531050427965446
A rare happy ending, as Anandkumar leaves Twitter and apologizes:
https://animakumar.wpcomstaging.com/2020/12/16/my-departure-from-twitter/
https://animakumar.wpcomstaging.com/2020/12/16/my-heartfelt-apology/
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