Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/1015775582263627776 …
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
The gender or sexuality or ideology of a person are not essential to advancing computing. They are actually distractions that take away useful parts of the brain by diverting motivation, attention and cortical estate from thinking about computation.
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Replying to @Plinz
At the highest, most pure level of abstraction, I agree with you. But in all other aspects of the human elements of computing, with all due respect, I think you are profoundly wrong.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
I just do not see a trajectory where you wake up people into separate competing group identities and it does not end ugly. Identity politics is toxic to pluralist society. My bet is that the current anti liberal us against them leftism will flip into rightism.
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Replying to @Plinz
I am somewhat sympathetic to that point of view, in the very most abstract sense. However...
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @Plinz
Both you and I come from the very privileged position of being white men in Western society. I suspect that many many non-white/non-men would (rightfully) point out they (tragically) have been impeded by the (clear and present) group identities.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
No, I am a nerd and have been borderline suicidal because of that for most of my life. I am also aware that I am stuck with an inferior gender. I learned coding as a child and studied cs despite the nerd stigma and discouragement it carried in the 1980ies.
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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch
If you don't mind me asking: 1) Why do you consider it an inferior gender? 2) Why does being a nerd make you feel borderline suicidal? Both these assertions greatly concern me as a human being.
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I won’t go there on public twitter, but Scott Aaronson said most of what needs to be said in comment 171: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2091#comment-326664 …
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