Timnit Gebru (she/her).Nov 16, 2022

BTW I'm not sure if anyone has seen some of the things on Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison's HBD (AKA race science) tumblr called Worldoptimization, where she's so openly eugenicist and awful.

And they pearl clutch when we draw the links between this cult and eugenics.

If Black people tried to do this shit the feds would've been on them and someone would've been shot by now.

The amount of stuff white people get away with is unreal.

Show threadAlex HannaNov 16, 2022
@timnitGebru what is a HBD
Show threadTimnit Gebru (she/her).Nov 16, 2022
@alex human bio diversity AKA race science. You can read this less wrong (AKA awful "rationality cult) discussion about it where someone is like what if HBD doesn't mean there are superior races and people are like NO.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/jttfuxoQpYsnNEAqG/suppose-hbd-is-true
Suppose HBD is True - LessWrong

Suppose, for the purposes of argument, HBD (Human bio-diversity, the claim that distinct populations (I will be avoiding using the word "race" here insomuch as possible) of humans exist and have subs…

Show threadNaomi SaphraNov 16, 2022
@timnitGebru @alex "I have never met a smart person who wasn't rich"
Show threadAlex HannaNov 16, 2022
@nsaphra @timnitGebru this is the stupidest paragraph that has the English language has ever seen
Show threadJeremy Kahn

@alex @nsaphra @timnitGebru

"Too bad we didn't leave some white people in the brutally extractive and carcinogenic coal mines; now there's no one left there that I trust"

Is certainly a take

Nov 16, 2022 at 5:30amWeb
Show threadAlex HannaNov 16, 2022
@trochee @nsaphra @timnitGebru 🥴