The MIT Communication Lab has published a guide, “Faculty Application: Diversity Statement” explaining how candidates for faculty appointments should craft the required “diversity” statement for applications.
Why Evolution Is True deconstructs the instructions.
Update: It would be fun to prompt GPT-3 with some of the suggested verbiage and see how well it does bullshitting the DIE comissars. (2022-11-28 12:23 UTC)
Meanwhile in Airstrip One:
Not sure whether to respond ‘Brrrr’ or ‘Urrrrggghhh!’
And, if the “making Islamophobia illegal” bill passes, it will be verboten to criticize such Islamist inciting of genocide. This kind of stuff makes US virtue signaling - “taking a knee” - seem paltry, considering these folks would have to “take a head” to demonstrate support. Of course, In England, that very act happens from time to time in the middle of the street in broad daylight; even happens to bobbies as I recall.
Addendum: not a bobbie - a soldier. Sorry.
Yes - this is grist for my recent post, “The Greatest Intellectual Error of Modernity” - at work in no less than MIT! The scientists and technologists succeeded in splitting the atom; they may, one day succeed at fusing atoms. By comparison, the politicians and psychologists are succeeding wildly at splitting racial, ethnic, sexual, and interest groups; don’t expect to see much fusion of humanity through their tutelage for the foreseeable future (unless it results during a thermonuclear flash).
I wonder if it in this case the attorney did not in fact instigate the lawsuit - or went “shopping” for a suitable client…
So not only programming jobs pay well… deprogamming jobs as well?
A good opportunity to test the capabilities of GPT-3’s latest model, text-davinci-003, which was released earlier today.
Here was the output using text-davinci-002:
And this is what I got using the new text-davinci-003:
Edit: The thief, Sam Brinton, happens to be an MIT grad.
Systemic racism explains everything.
Words fail.
If you’re not familiar with it, here are details of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African Americans with syphilis. The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study medical advancements meant it was entirely treatable. The men were not informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as a result.
The Public Health Service started the study in 1932 in collaboration with Tuskegee University (then the Tuskegee Institute), a historically Black college in Alabama. In the study, investigators enrolled a total of 600 impoverished African-American sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama. Of these men, 399 had latent syphilis, with a control group of 201 men who were not infected. As an incentive for participation in the study, the men were promised free medical care. While the men were provided with both medical and mental care that they otherwise would not have received, they were deceived by the PHS, who never informed them of their syphilis diagnosis and provided disguised placebos, ineffective methods, and diagnostic procedures as treatment for “bad blood”.
The men were initially told that the experiment was only going to last six months, but it was extended to 40 years. After funding for treatment was lost, the study was continued without informing the men that they would never be treated. None of the infected men were treated with penicillin despite the fact that, by 1947, the antibiotic was widely available and had become the standard treatment for syphilis.
The study continued, under numerous Public Health Service supervisors, until 1972, when a leak to the press resulted in its termination on November 16 of that year. By then, 28 patients had died directly from syphilis, 100 died from complications related to syphilis, 40 of the patients’ wives were infected with syphilis, and 19 children were born with congenital syphilis.
At time I captured the screen shot of the tweet from Dr Rochelle “Madame Mengele” Walensky, 316 people had “Liked” it.
I wonder how many years it will take to recognize the horror of having coercively inoculated around half of humanity with untested genetic material of unknown consequences with an absence of anything even vaguely resembling informed consent?
