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Maybe Timnit and Margaret getting fired from Google had nothing to do with their ethnicity or their gender, but that neither of them was actually particularly talented? It seems to me like they're both one trick ponies, with their only talent being to soak every viewpoint in critical theory.

I read an early draft of Timnit's problematic report and it sounded like an ignorant student ranting against the machine but without any real engineering suggestions of how to improve anything at an actual technological level. I also just had a look at Margaret's own personal website and it's also embarrassing from a technical point of view. There's even a <head> tag malformed on one of the pages. She has no right working in tech if that's the best website she could muster up. Both of them would probably be much better suited to working in the make-believe world of academia, rather than the private sector, as neither seem like much of an asset to Google when all's said and done. I doubt either added any real value to the company and its products.

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