[kwlug-disc] Non-tech reference, but may be useful by tech co.

Mikalai Birukou mb at 3nsoft.com
Fri Feb 26 11:26:51 EST 2021


> Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann. Committed a suicide. From wiki 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Boltzmann
>
> """
>
> ... In 1904 at a physics conference in St. Louis most physicists 
> seemed to reject atoms and he was not even invited to the physics 
> section.
>
> """

1904! Cancel culture already?

>> As for the "howto" of how to push back, there was a recent kerfuffle
>> in the AI community that may lend some useful lessons when under attack.
>>
>> https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/ 
>>

Cancel-culture have existed before. We survived. We pushed back, we 
survived the barbarism.

Is it similar to democracy, in that we have to remind ourselves from 
time to time about fundamental principles?






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