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152 sats \ 13 replies \ @SimpleStacker 24 Oct \ on: Stacker Saloon
How university radicalization happens:
- University-wide AI task force
- Small minority complains about environmental sustainability and racism in AI
- Rest of committee doesn't want to talk about that, but leaders don't want to say this is an irrelevant topic for this group
- Leaders create a separate "community of interest" for the topic
- Fringe complainers join that community, no moderate people join, that group becomes more fringe
It stems from leaders being too shy to shut down conversations that are not relevant to the university. Even if you believe that AI has environmental sustainability issues, I don't see what one university can do about it
Curious to get @Undisciplined and @south_korea_ln's view on it, given your academic backgrounds
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I don't recall this dynamic on any topic of substance. Either an unimportant issue was completely hijacked by this kind of foolishness or we more or less stayed on topic.
I was mostly on committees comprised of STEM faculty, though.
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Yeah, I never really encountered this at department/college level committees, mostly composed of people with econ backgrounds. First time encountering it is on the university-wide committees.
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The closest I've been to that was grad student senate, but obviously nothing of any importance was discussed there.
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Probably because academic departments are extremely sorted samples of people, applying strong filters on interests and personality.
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