Microsoft's 2020 Hour of Code Lesson Doubles As Unconscious Bias Training 164
theodp writes: What if we could build a better world through code?", begins the just-released teaser video for Microsoft's 2020 Hour of Code: A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages . "Help us bring two villages together through the power of code! [...] You will experience empathy and compassion for your neighbor while embracing the diversity that makes us all uniquely special." Intended for ages 7-and-up, the accompanying Educator Guide suggests opening the 45-minute coding lesson (using Blocks or Python) with a 10-minute discussion of unconscious and conscious bias, including "prejudice based on race, ethnicity, age, gender, gender identity, physical ability, religion, and body weight." The Guide also suggests how teachers might explain to students the harm biases can cause: "Both conscious and unconscious biases can cause us to behave negatively or discriminate against people. When we stereotype people based on their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or some other characteristic, it can be detrimental to us and our community. On a larger and extreme scale, bias can lead to oppression, genocide, and even slavery." The Guide notes that this year's Hour of Code lesson adheres to five Social Justice Standards. The use of Minecraft, Microsoft Education suggests, will help keep students developing and applying social and emotional skills during the pandemic.
Microsoft mindf*ck (Score:5, Insightful)
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Microsoft is not encouraging teachers to teach coding out of the goodness of its heart. It's producing what it needs in future workers. The same goes for sensitivity training. It's not because Microsoft cares about feelings, it's that the tradition that coding ability is a license for acting like an asshole isn't good for productivity. It's never been.
Re:Microsoft mindf*ck (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, it's conscious. And true.
How about brainphishing? (Score:2)
Can't websearch for "mindf*ck", you know. The seminal book was called Nudge which is also hard to search for in the proper context. My new portmanteau is a combination of "brainwashing" and "spearphishing" to yield "brainphishing". But if you have a better label or links to deeper discussions of the topic, it would be kind of you to share them. Slashdot will let me know about your reply...
Ok let me get this straight (Score:4, Insightful)
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Truth in advertising laws suggest they should rename it "Hour of indoctrination."
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Are there parents that would actually want/allow their kids to have to take this class?
You're assuming parents take an active part in their child's education. A good portion have no idea what their children are taught, and a good portion of those can't even comprehend what they're being taught anyway.
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Re: Ok let me get this straight (Score:2)
No, just wanting to avoid unconscious bias.
That and all the people proposing ub bollocks are completely unaware that their values/worldview/lifestyle are not any more valid than any other held by people.
In fact, I would say, they go to great lengths (without thinking it through) to convert others to their way.
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This is not indoctrination. This is reality. Indoctrination is a parent telling their kid, "Never take orders from a black man" or "Jews will try to kidnap you so watch out for them".
There have been hundreds of studies and papers and whatnot showing unconscious bias [builtin.com], particularly in hiring. Some studies have used the same resume for two different people. The only difference was the p [beapplied.com]
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Teaching kids to change their bias from what their parents intended to what Microsoft intends is bad. Don't think that Microsoft (or the cooperating school districts) are separate from any biases themselves.
Re:Ok let me get this straight (Score:5, Insightful)
Calling an indoctrination session an "hour of code" is deceptive.
If they're willing to lie about that, why should I believe they're not lying about everything else?
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> Hey kids, trust your gut, even if it's totally wrong, it's fine.
8 yo: My gut says the man with the windowless van giving away free candy is stranger danger.
8 yo after MS training: My unconscious bias is saying we shouldn't judge people unfairly, and that candy looks good.
Re: Ok let me get this straight (Score:2)
At least you are thinking of the children. Someone has to.
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The problem is that this sort of training doesn't teach being aware of biases. It teaches you race/group A is biased towards race/ groups B,C,D,E,F,G,H and are awful. Also, the US is a terrible place and we should analyze every bad thing that has happened in it.
It also teaches about microaggressions, which by definition ( Had to read this twice) can ONLY be done by the primary group towards a marginalized group, whoever that is.
Source: I just sat through 4 hours of this training.
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Dude, look at the Trump supporters, the news they favor and the president himself and tell me that's not indoctrination. His followers act like cult members worshiping at his altar. Countering this nationalistic, racist, self-serving and selfish behavior is the least we can do. Unfortunately, too many parents don't teach that we all live in the same world.
But don't you see, its the warped world view presented in this anti-bias training that makes Trump supporters in the first place. Trump's support is very much a rejection not of racism, but of the way its being presented in trainings like this. You really think that forcing people through these types of trainings helps things? I'm very much certain it makes things worse. Everything was trending better before the current round of PC-ism started about 10 years ago. Pushing extreme world views like critic
Souds like Hour of Preaching (Score:5, Insightful)
22% preaching time, sounds balanced. Or maybe let the parents educate that stuff, and they should actually use the 45' to teach, you know, code? On the other end, maybe they should spend 10 more minutes explaining the code of conduct too, you can never be careful enough.
Are there any Coding Standards that they follow, or it's all Social these days?
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Bullshit. The one thing the parents will teach the kids who need this training is what the training is against.
More than 25 years ago, a report was published showing that of teenaged unwed mothers, 4-3 referred to themselves as evangelical Christian. Their parents NEVER GAVE THEM SEX ED, OTHER THAN "DON'T DO IT, BUT IF YOU DO, USE PROTECTION"... and that's for the better religions parents.
And you think the parents of the kids who *need* this training are going to do anything but "You've got to be taught, to
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Relying on parents to teach their kids stuff is unfair to the ones with busy/poor/bad parents. If that was a viable option we wouldn't need schools at all.
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Racial prejudices etc are not contracted at school, but at home. Fair enough with disadvantaged family. Alternatively at kindergarten, yes. Primary school yes. Then the boat starts sailing. Definitely not during the bloody hour of code. I'd never want to become a programmer if that was the introduction to that.
Well, no kidding (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, the entire thing is an attempt to shift people's biases in favor of Microsoft, when they are still spyware-distributing corporate scum with a negative influence on education, just like its founder Bill Gates, whose foundation also has a negative influence on education (and who is still involved with promoting the company, albeit less directly than in the past.)
If Microsoft really wanted to promote Minecraft-related education, they would have stuck with the cross-platform version of the game, and done their education-related stuff there — and then they would have made that available to everyone, not just educators. What Microsoft actually wants is to embed themselves in the educational process for reasons of profit generation, which ought to be obvious to anyone as they are a corporation and not a person. Microsoft not only doesn't have a heart of gold, it doesn't have a heart.
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What Microsoft actually wants is to embed themselves in the educational process for reasons of profit generation
Much like Apple traditionally has done, giving special deals to schools on Macs for years.
Re: Well, no kidding (Score:2)
That is correct. Before it was Macintoshes, it was Apple 2s. Of course, Apple was a fundamentally different company back then. The Apple 2 offered good value for money.
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Everybody gives education discounts, from the smallest one-man developer to the biggies.
It was a key strategy in Microsoft getting Office established as the defacto office suite. But the real champs of the genre are Mathworks with MatLab.
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Well, MS will do anything for a buck. Nothing new. I wish they would finally learn to write software that was halfway decent though.
I'm all for (Score:5, Insightful)
compassion, empathy, and embracing diversity. But if I had kids I wouldn't be all for Microsoft trying to indoctrinate them. In the first place, if they're there to learn to program, teach them that - the best life lessons are incidental anyway. Secondly, I wouldn't want my kids to spend energy dealing with the cognitive dissonance of Microsoft preaching kindness and compassion while spying on and screwing over their users and forcing them into the rent-to-not-own model of servitude.
This is a combination of virtue-signalling, PR, and brainwashing - it has nothing to do with promoting mental and emotional health. Just fuck right off Microsoft.
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Scary, I wouldn't want an embrace from microsoft, as you always got to wonder when the extend and extinguish are going to follow.
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compassion, empathy, and embracing diversity. But if I had kids I wouldn't be all for Microsoft trying to indoctrinate them.
I agree. But I also don't think the local, state, or federal governments should be trying to indoctrinate them with that stuff in classes either. On Slashdot that makes me a "right wing extremist", lol
"lead to oppression, genocide, and even slavery" (Score:5, Insightful)
So slavery is worse than genocide now?
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And rape is worse than murder. Have you not been keeping up?
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And silence is violence.
Welcome to upside-down world.
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Those are all crimes against PROPERTY. Violence can only be committed against living things....
A lying, bullshit justification for arson, looting and vandalism.
You're disgusting.
Re:"lead to oppression, genocide, and even slavery (Score:5, Insightful)
Those are all crimes against PROPERTY. Violence can only be committed against living things....
That sad notion would also define burning crosses in people’s yards as a form of peaceful protest, because it is only a crime against property. Is that the standard you really want? No, crimes against property ARE crimes against people, because people own the property.
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Let's be honest here: burning a cross on someone's yard is peaceful protest, so long as that someone is a rich white guy (and all white guys are, by definition (of white privilege), rich, so they all deserve it).
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Let's be honest here: burning a cross on someone's yard is peaceful protest, so long as that someone is a rich white guy (and all white guys are, by definition (of white privilege), rich, so they all deserve it).
That's pretty honest all right. Basically, you're saying violent intimidation in the name of racial supremacy is fine, as long as it's in support of black supremacy. Sorry if I disagree.
Re:"lead to oppression, genocide, and even slavery (Score:5, Insightful)
You'd feel differently if it were your business burning to the ground.
But, being a leftie fascist, you've never held down a real job, much less own a business, so that's all alien to you.
The left wants to make everyone (except themselves) equal, and knows full well the only way to do that is to reduce everyone (except themselves) to the same level of squalid poverty and dependence on the state (themselves) to even have food to eat.
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And speech is worse than violence
Well off course. The pen is mightier than the sword. Even if you read out loud.
Re:"lead to oppression, genocide, and even slavery (Score:4, Interesting)
And brushing someone's ass the press of a niceclub dance floor or any other crowd without explicit recorded consent is violent sexual assault, essentially rape.
1 in 5 women have been sexually assaulted in their lifetime you know... by that standard I'm reasonably sure 5 in 5 men have been sexually assaulted as well!
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You know, I think my tailor did assault me in that way once!
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For me it was a hair dresser.
We are survivors. Really, we should be in therapy unpacking.
Oh and that chick who grabbed my penis and arched her brow seeming to say 'eh?' at the bar that one time. But that doesn't count because she was cute... the 'its okay if they are cute' exemption is still a thing but since it makes no sense the obvious thing to do isn't to drop insane concepts like calling social faux pas and incidental touching something as nefarious as 'sexual assault' but instead to inform on and exec
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And rape is worse than murder. Have you not been keeping up?
Indeed. Perverted morals all around.
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A more reasonable interpretation of that sentence would be that they are listed in order of how common they are as a result of subconscious bias.
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So slavery is worse than genocide now?
Of course! Killing people, even wholesale is perfectly ok, if they are "bad" people (by whatever squishy definition). But slaves have a victim bonus, so they cannot be "bad" and hence slavery is obviously much, much worse than mass-murder!
I am surprised you cannot see that. You should apply for re-indoctrination urgently.
Orwell would roll over in his grave (Score:4, Interesting)
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I am not one of the 0.1%, in fact I grew up poor. Over the years I've encountered a few people others with reasonable lineage as well. That and $10 will get you a cup of coffee. The thing is that we don't identify with a color or any other random birth trait shared by masses, if anything we identify with our peers.
For the history class, not the coding class (Score:4, Insightful)
But there must be a way to do it without injecting the latest trends in social justice activism into mostly-unrelated subjects. Yes, teach them about the history of slavery and genocide. But that's mostly something for a history class, not a coding class.
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Maybe we do need to fill the void that was in the past filled by religion, and find a new way to teach kids to be decent compassionate human beings
When you reject God, you have to make something up. This is what they made up. Get used to it, I guess.
huh? (Score:2)
why teach kids to be "decent" and "compassionate"?
we now teach them that they are just evolved animals - just shambling mounds of cells, which have reproduced over time with gradual modification through a random mix of happy accidents. If one takes it down a notch, a physics person can further analyze it as a shambling pile of atoms and molecules, driven by the laws of physics. A big pile of atoms and molecules has no need of an artificial construct like morality - those particles just do what physics drive
Unconscious bias is a flawed and harmful idea (Score:4, Insightful)
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Unconscious bias is a flawed idea, lacking any kind of falsifaiability [britannica.com]. It is also a counterproductive and harmful idea that racilizes white people [wikipedia.org] and leads to a set of additional, even more harmful [psychologytoday.com] ideas like microagressions, reverse discrimination, and white fragility. The largest harm is framing - if you tell a group of people that everyone is out to get them (intentionally or not), then they start viewing all interactions through such lens.
I have had training to allow me to understand what my personal biases might be. It can be helpful in some situations but I also agree with what you say here as well. It can be harmful to simply paint an entire race of people as racists whether it's overt or not. I also believe that our society favors knee-jerk reactions (yelling racism at one group, for example) based on the actions of a very small number of people and don't take into account what the majority are doing.
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That is their intention. Radicalizing young people and indoctrination into woke idealism is even more important than cheap labor.
Someone needs to stop this before our country descends into civil war.
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To form a proper cult, you also need a boogie man to demonize, in this case, "white people, especially white men."
Promoting insane, impossible ideals is classic cult behavior. It isolates the cult members from mainstream society, which keeps them from realizing what a bunch of moonbats they're hanging out with.
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You seem to be confusing the concept of unconscious bias with specifically racial bias and various ideas for doing something about it.
The idea that people have unconscious biases is not only falsifiable, it's pretty easily demonstrated. It's why we do double blind trials, you may prefer one brand over another even if the product is identical, and some people like pugs.
Re:Unconscious bias is a flawed and harmful idea (Score:5, Informative)
You can certainly have a conscious bias towards a particular brand, for example, but a lot of it is unconscious. Advertising psychology basically exists to exploit unconscious bias. Colours, words, images are all chosen to appeal to dominant biases in a particular population.
Your example is a bit silly, but let's go with it. You've hypothesized that I cause yawning. You honestly can't think of a way to test that hypothesis? Counting the yawns that happen when I'm there in the room and when I'm not, for example?
Now let's use a more useful example. You're in charge of hiring. You have a bias, of which you are unaware, against people named "Karen." This can be demonstrated by giving you a bunch of random resumes with random names and watching to see if you throw them out preferentially when they have a Karen on them. You can also test for the bias via any number of clever psychological tricks, like playing word pairing games.
I agree with you, unconscious bias is, by definition, not something you are morally responsible for. The "unconscious" part means it lacks two of the three elements. Good unconscious bias training alerts people to the possibility they have unconscious biases, doesn't assume what those biases are and doesn't ascribe responsibility.
Psychology holds a particular fascination for many people and activists and business types both love to take pop psych and go nuts with it. Personality tests, unconscious bias, there are loads of examples. The tendency of social justice activists to assume that the existence of unconscious bias means, for example, all white people are biased against all black people, is just as obnoxious and dangerous as the tendency of other people to vehemently insist it doesn't exist at all. I also don't think it's a good idea to mix things subjects like Hour of Code seems to be doing. The concept of unconscious bias should be taught properly, on its own. Coding should be taught properly, on its own. There's no reason to mix them, other than a political agenda.
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Your example is a bit silly, but let's go with it. You've hypothesized that I cause yawning. You honestly can't think of a way to test that hypothesis? Counting the yawns that happen when I'm there in the room and when I'm not, for example?
We can also measure white racism [uillinois.edu] and universally all long-standing metrics indicate that it is lowest it has ever been. Yet this is never acknowledged. Instead the activists shifted narratives to highly ambiguous concept of unconscious bias or systemic racism.
My perspective on this issue is that in 2020 accusations of racism are both prevalent and predominately baseless. I see unconscious bias along the same lines - it is likely does not manifest in a form that we would recognize as a traditional definiti
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The problem is we're seeing huge numbers of people clinging to ideas that are actually proven false. It could be an unconscious bias (there are all sorts of cognitive biases) but also how social media force feeds people ideas that only reinforce their beliefs. This self-reinforcement of ideas is definitely harmful. Adults can have a hard time coming around but kids are much more fluid. Teaching them to look at the world from different angles and more importantly teaching them critical thinking is only a
Re: Unconscious bias is a flawed and harmful idea (Score:2)
Now all these loons have found each other and made victimhood seem cool. So rich white suburban kids are getting in on the act. Which is how you get this shit. Learn to
Moral panic is politically useful. (Score:2)
Western traditions control people through Christian guilt and guilt once ensconced is a wonderful tool to make simpletons submit even to anti-superstitionist ideologies. Moral panic coupled with Leftist use of guilt has been very effective but must inevitably provoke violent blowback. Moral panic mobilizes the masses so it must be used in cultural war. The opponent should not exist and must be exterminated.
The solution is war, a normal human process the race evolved to survive. Who wins doesn't matter. (Not
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Actually, its a useful concept, if you're a bigot (Score:2)
The concept of "unconscious bias" helps racists.
A racist looks at a bunch of people with a specific skin color, presumes those persons all think alike (based on their skin color), and if any of the accused deny it, the racist says "of COURSE you're guilty - and so much so that you cannot even recognize it in yourself". It's the tool that lets actual racists accuse everybody else of racism and then escape any scrutiny; sort of like a political/cultural drive-by shooting.
Barack Obama is currently making himse
Biases - attributes that will not go away, sadly.. (Score:2, Informative)
... "Both conscious and unconscious biases can cause us to behave negatively or discriminate against people. When we stereotype people based on their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or some other characteristic, it can be detrimental to us and our community...
I had access to some research amongst our teachers. Here's what happened...
A group of 4 to 5 year olds (of a variety of ethnicities), were randomly put in class, all sharing tables. Teachers, without being told what was going to happen, were told to observe these kids for potential bad behaviour.
Eye movement monitoring and focussing software was used to monitor on whom the the teachers' focus was.
Result: 91% of them kept their focus on the black kids, reported what they termed as "potentially" concerning
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Teachers, without being told what was going to happen, were told to observe these kids for potential bad behaviour.
How on earth did you get that by a board of review? Not telling test subjects the nature of a test is a breach of modern ethics.
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It would have ruined the whole point of the test though.
But yeah, I still agree about the ethics. This is literally the story of the Stanford Prison Experiment.
"Bad behavior"... WTF. Bad to whom? By what definition? And what whim or mood of the day?
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So, being shitty to black kids is ok but only if everyone does it?
WTF dude.
The hour of what? (Score:2)
What's Next? (Score:4, Insightful)
Am I the only one? (Score:2, Insightful)
Am I the only one that things this is directly related to coding? How many systems have been created that themselves inherit their own biases due to the designers missing a whole range of considerations? Whether that's facial recognition software or even the software that helps calculate recommended prison sentences.
Awareness of more possibilities is vital to creating good software. In programming, you might call it edge cases. But this is just more humane language.
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How many systems have been created that themselves inherit their own biases
People see a result and claiming bias but asking them prove it is bias results in them pointing to the results. They completely ignore that the results might not be biased and reflect the facts.. You are one of those people.
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People see a result and claiming bias but asking them prove it is bias results in them pointing to the results.
When facial recognition neural networks are trained on only white faces, it's going to stumble pretty severely on anything else. Simply being aware of the potential problem is enough to help you fix your sample data going in.
With this example, it's not hard to prove it's bias. Not detecting a face, or recognizing it as a gorilla [slashdot.org] is a problem.
Re:Am I the only one? (Score:4, Insightful)
No, I am not exaggerating. Read the linked "Social Justice Standards". They are explicit steps for the political indoctrination of our children. The last step happens to be training them to take direct action to further the political agenda of the monsters behind this. Sure, it's all dressed up with flowery language about people being hurt by bias or narrowly (mis-)defined injustice, but that's a sham. It is all about indoctrinating children with a counter-factual political ideology and training them to force it upon others.
Never forget that "Progressivism" was the ideology of eugenisists. The modern strain is no more scientific and no less anti-social than it was 100 years ago.
Racist Microsoft? (Score:2)
Do we want Microsoft lecturing children about racial or sexual bias when one of their own creations was racist [theverge.com]? Then they tried to make a politically-correct chatbot and things didn't go so well [qz.com].
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Do we want Microsoft lecturing children about racial or sexual bias when one of their own creations was racist?
Let's look at the articles you linked
It took less than 24 hours for Twitter to corrupt an innocent AI chatbot.
Pretty soon after Tay launched, people starting tweeting the bot with all sorts of misogynistic, racist, and Donald Trumpist remarks. And Tay — being essentially a robot parrot with an internet connection — started repeating these sentiments back to users, proving correct that old programming adage: flaming garbage pile in, flaming garbage pile out.
When Microsoft released Tay on Twitter in 2016, an organized trolling effort took advantage of her social-learning abilities and immediately flooded the bot with alt-right slurs and slogans.
Hmmm. It looks like the AI isn't racist but the people interacting with it are. It was trained to be racist by people on Twitter, not created as racist by Microsoft. That speaks more to the people on Twitter than to anything Microsoft did.
Then they tried to make a politically-correct chatbot and things didn't go so well.
Let's look at Zo and the article about it.
Zo is politically correct to the worst possible extreme; mention any of her triggers, and she transforms into a judgmental little brat.
So far, the article sounds like it is describing many SJWs.
“We are doing this safely and respectfully and that means using checks and balances to protect her from exploitation.”
Hmm. Looks like Microsoft implemented this behavior specifically because people are assholes who will make an "organized trolling effor
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Have no doubt that any idology that seeks to define people on the basis of their ethnicity, no matter how lofty the overt goal, is racism. Go ahead and read their five standards. The first one is all about training children to define themselves according to all the various groups they may have been born into, and to be proud of it! The last is that they will have been trained to force this view on everyone else.
This is wrong. We cannot
Can't it be about the code? (Score:2)
If we drill this into kids who are 10 years old, when they enter the work force in 10 year (I'll be 43), we'll have a bunch of young adults who won't understand technology, because every technical term will be some degree of offensive based on feelings, and their computers will want stress leave because CLM, but you won't be allowed to say that because reasons.
Teaching kids to not hold bias and to not judge people
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Politeness and civility training would accomplish the overtly stated goals of these monsters, but that's not what they're really after. If they were, they would not be trying to indoctinate children with an inherently racist and intentionally divisive ideology.
Just look at what's being done to your daughter. You'd think that teachers might know that the word "history" is derrived from the Greek, and that it contains the letters H
*facepalm* Go away with your SJW triggers. (Score:2)
You know that the entire freaking damn point of the brain is bias, right?
It's literally all it does: Bias input based on past input, to detect fuzzy common patterns to make fuzzy predictions so you know what choice to make to advance towards your goals.
It is literally physically unable to stay neutral.
And why should it anyway? As you can see from the above, that would only mean making inferior choices.
The actual problem would be: Willful ignorance and delusion. (Same thing, neurally and psychologically. A d
Odd class structure (Score:2)
I can see that when a class teaches a skill, there may well be a competitive spirit in the class. So one can imagine kids going into posturing and being derogatory to each other as a result. One can further imagine arming teachers with a curriculum on how to counteract antisocial and uncivil manifestations in kids, possibly including discussion of biases. But it would need to be optional material to use if the situation warrants it.
If, for example, a kid codes something up faster and starts taunting others
Mandatory addition to any learning program: (Score:4, Insightful)
"And always remember, you're racist."
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Everyone's a little bit racist. Also, the internet is for porn. Remember that.
I object to this, believe it or not (Score:2)
Haha, gross! (Score:2)
Allegory in "A Minecraft Tale of Two Villages"? (Score:2)
Friendly Villagers=Democrats?
Hostile Illagers=Republicans?
Friendly Ravagers=Immigrants?
Trade at the fair=Fair Trade & Open Markets?
Odd (Score:2)
Almost exclusively, unconscious bias is determined by an outside observer.
The presumptions being, the observer is capable of consciously detecting a bias, and isnâ(TM)t weighed down by their own baggage.
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Oh you think you evolved to the next level in some SJW vs "anti-'SJW'" arms race, or what?
Wanna be part of the same club as the audiophile whisky jazz snobs?
Mate you're the only one, and we know you're only doing it to be "cooler" than all the other kids. So please go back to your Reddit, where they can't even completely see through you.
[Redneck voice] Folks 'round 'ere are from ’round 'ere!
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QED.
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Well, I just think you are a cunt. Not that I am triggered or anything. I barely managed to find the motivation to write this. You SJW fuckups think you are far more important than you actually are. Basically you are boring and annoying, like any movement that drips concentrated stupid.
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I think either way they're gonna fail.
One way, they'll back down. (lol, like asking Trump to back down) :)
The other way, they'll "Racist!" ALL the things, make it meaningless, and fail too. Just more spectacularly.
And you know me: Fireworks! Wheeee!!
Anyone got some fuel and napalm? ;)
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Maybe in the 90s. Slashdot today is mostly battling Russian and American trolls. Of the educated types who haven't left, many are suffering from aging engineer disease.
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Of the educated types who haven't left, many are suffering from aging engineer disease.
Symptoms: Cynicism, sore knees and a bad back?
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If you see someone who is clearly a man wearing women's clothing, it is correct to recognize their sex and regard them appropriately. The Politically correct "Social Justice" crowd want you to believe that what your eyes and knowledge of basic biology tell you is not reality, what that guy in the dres
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After reading about the opportunity on Microsoft's website, I say, Microsoft, No Thanks.
I have grown weary of corporations telling me how I should think. I can think for myself.
But you see that makes you an aberration. You could have unsanctioned ideas! Probably you should be dealt with in some way, you could be dangerous! Don't worry though, it will all be perfectly legal and that makes it all right.