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·5 jaar geleden·discuss
The only way that wokeness will go away is if there is a monetary incentive for it to go away. Once that happens, if it ever happens, it will likely take 20+ years for these cancerous wretches to be purged from their institutional power. Just like it took about 20 years for them to weasel in and destroy everything.
ransElectronics
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
The question isn't whether or not it escaped from a lab. The question is whether or not China released it from their lab deliberately.
ransElectronics
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
> I don’t think we would ever want to go back to those repressive systems that controlled women.

Why not?
ransElectronics
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Do not entertain these people's pony show. Do not give them attention. The only way for UMN to be redeemed is for them to expel all the researchers responsible and to fire all the staff tangentially responsible for letting it happen.
ransElectronics
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I am not talking about people actively approving it. I am talking about people passively allowing it to happen. For this mess to have even happened in the first place, the entire workforce at UMN had to look at that and go "yep, there's nothing ethically wrong with this" and just passively let it happen. At best this shows their unchecked desire to destroy OSS projects.

What is their end goal, exactly? I have no idea. The research paper they already put out seems like a charade for whatever that goal was, and we can only speculate.

For this reason nobody can trust anybody working at UMN or anybody getting educated through UMN.
ransElectronics
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
The researchers, the researcher's bosses and pretty much every person in command at UMN had to sign off on this being an acceptable method of conducting research. This shows such an extreme lack of good faith or judgement on their part that I do not believe UMN could, or should ever be forgiven. Their actions show nothing but criminally bad faith taking place, all the way up to the top. The only rational response from the Kernel team is to revert all code submitted by any member of UMN and to permanently blacklist every person who has ever attended UMN or worked at UMN for any reason or any length of time.

The only way I could see this getting forgiven is if every party that could have cancelled the project is forcibly removed from holding any position of employment or enrollment at UMN, going all the way up to the head owners and managers of the entire university.