Yoshua Bengio @ #DLRLSS discussing the elephant in the room... Couldn't summarize it better myself. Full round of applause followed.pic.twitter.com/ZCyGa4QKoK
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Yes it does matter. If his high profile colleagues (in fact not just them but huge swaths of the industry) seem to feel ok with what they do, that is evidence *against* the claim those activities are problematic. That's the problem with alienating large groups of people.
What you're referring to there is "social proof". That's not exactly the best way to evaluate whether or not a group is doing is okay (see....history).
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Again, its his colleagues (who are also experts), and most of the industry in question. Its not a random sample of the population.
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*Galileo has left the room* (yes yes this might be a bit facetious, but I don't want my main examples to immediately be nazis or slave-owners being in the majority at one point)
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