11 Replies to “Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. What can one say?
    1. Is it possible that the ruling class propaganda machine actually read the article?
    2. It is possible that it is a case that even if any one of them wanted to write in support of the article, he/she would by fired just like the author.
    3. Remember when they put certain Solzhenitsyn in the gulag because they did not like his writing?
    One of the characters that runs the company would know about that, he or his parents are from the failed socialist paradise.
    It is also true that the honchos that run the company can fire anybody for any reason to please themselves.
    So there is this dilemma, what to do.
    Actually, nothing other than heap scorn on the company culture and its rulers. Lots and lots of scorn, until their collective heads spins.
    Gotta go, later.
    After reading the whole article it is obvious that the author generally agrees with the state of the affairs at the company while suggesting that there are other valid variables that could be looked at.
    He simply suggests some prescription.
    However in the era of looking for victimhood under every rock, it appears that any deviation from the diktat is past possible.
    Social “justice”, trigger warning and all the newspeak that you may be familiar with are so ingrained within the corporate structure that the only solution would be for the company to fail miserably, to free itself of the jaws of totalitarian mind.

  3. #MEMOTOGOOGLERIVALS : If you want to cripple Google (or any other liberal/progressive competitor) all you need to do is send a series of anonymous politically incorrect memos. All of the university graduates they employ will be emotionally crushed by the “violent” language and be too frightened to come to work.
    #MEMOTOFOREIGNCYBERAGENCIES : see above. All companies employing recent university graduates in their IT departments are likely to be as emotionally vulnerable and fearful of dissenting opinions as Google employees.

  4. Someone suggested splitting Google into a male / female search engine. May I suggest Booble and Frettel.

  5. off-topic but found on the same web-page as the article in question.
    hefederalist.com/2016/04/22/why-conservative-women-are-so-pretty/

  6. Sorry about the long post but the links won’t work
    Welcome to the modern age baby: a media saturated world claiming to be transparent, but actually about as see-through as a politician wearing a lead suit. Evil is no longer smacking its victims over the head with the proverbial truncheon, it’s creeping up in broad day-light, smiling like an organic food salesman who thinks he’s single handedly saving the planet (ignoring that his clothes are from Primark and stitched together with children’s skin). Let me introduce you to the biggest cult you deal with on a daily basis:
    Google.
    One employee describes working at Google as “interesting, fun, surprising, insightful, inspiring, impactful, and more such words”. Sounds delightful doesn’t it? But really it’s a cry for help. Set foot inside Google offices and you’ll find a colourful maze of misshapen light-bulbs, meeting rooms in the shape of taxis, and a general decor that wouldn’t look out of place in a youth club decorated by a five-year old high on skittles and fruit twists. Actually, I take that back – that would be great. It’s more like mid-life-crisis Dad attempting to get down with the kids with a splash of crayola and some innapropriately placed rock-climbing handles. Except Dad is an international corporation and the kids are apparently some of the cleverest people on the planet.
    The same employee blogs his top ten favourite things about working for Google. After writing an essay on how the gourmet muffins Google cafeteria serve saved his marriage, cured his impotence, and gave him powers of flight (I’m paraphrasing), the author of the blog writes about the “brain expansion opportunities” offered by Google. He attributes this to the “brilliant people visiting and giving talks and lectures”, which include politicians, monks, and venture capitalists (bankers dressed as Indiana Jones?), but we both know what’s going on here: brain-washing. It has to be. How else could said employee get so excited about the green prospects of a 100% biodegradable cup, while working for a company whose energy consumption could power a 200,000 person city.
    Google are breeding an army of employees that cannot envision a world without Google, a world where the latest Google plugin is a digital Mother Teresa………
    Has the search engine itself formed a complex conscious AI and taken over? Are we on the verge of a machine uprising against humans? What will we do with all our boffins stuck at Google playing hacky sack? Somebody get Will Smith! Wait, what? He’s in the Guitar Hero room at Google giving a speech?
    We’re doomed.

  7. Someone suggested splitting Google into a male / female search engine.
    Isn’t that politically incorrect? After all we have an exponentially-increasing number of genders, don’t we?

  8. What this whole episode indicates to me is that it’s time to ditch google and all of the increasingly useless perversions of technology. While off grid this summer I ran into a rant about Android phones that I wrote a couple of years ago with pen and ink about google working under the delusion that everybody was connected to the internet all of the time. We were staying at a lake where there’s no power, no cell phone service and it’s a 40 minute drive to a spot where one can maybe get a cell signal. That’s where I found out that, even despite downloading detailed satellite images of the area, my Android phone refused to show me the maps and suggested I turn on my WiFi for assistance. Things are even worse 2 years later although it’s let me mark all applications that transfer sensor data over the internet as my Garmin HR monitor/step counter refused to sync because there was no internet connection.
    Also, my wife decided she’d install upgrades on my phone which I personally absolutely refuse to do and got Android 7 which promply broke many of the applications I use daily. So, already planning on rooting my phone and installing a saner version of Android, but now have decided that when a company seeks deliberately to cripple products and ignore reality its time to dump them. Won’t get an iPhone as at least rooting an Android phone will give one a Linux system whereas IOS is fine if one likes to spend ones life playing in a sandbox.
    Even 20 years ago, a lot of the hackers that I knew in Vancouver were predominantly Libertarian, but most of them were also male. There aren’t a lot of female hackers as, shockingly for those who subscribe to the blank slate hypothesis of human development, male and female brains are wired very differently. Men like dealing with things and solving problems whereas women like dealing with people. This works out very well as a male/female dyad can handle situations that members of the dyad working alone might be unable to deal with. My communication style is low context which means I’d be just as fine getting a transcript of someones speech over a serial line as listening to them whereas my wife’s is high context where tones of words, facial expressions, bodily expressions and all those weird things that only women seem to be capable of percieving result in what I view as a simple sentence from someone actually meaning something completely unexpected. I fix things, run the networks, make money and provide muscle power.
    That’s not to say that women can never be good hackers, I’ve found Joanna Rutkowska’s work on tinkering with virtualization very impressive and just have to find time to setup a Qubes system which I suspect is a partial solution to deal with the looming catastrophe of everything being connected to everything in future googleworld.
    It’s certainly possible for people to intellectually grasp issues that they don’t see as obvious as my having to learn that what people tell you isn’t what they’re trying to communicate in the fashion of ascii text over a communication channel, learning how to decode facial expressions, mastering proverb interpretations in a non-autistic manner and getting it all down so my subconscious could handle it so I get get to the enjoying part of doing medicine which was solving difficult clinical problems. A lot more work than coding in assembly language or designing TTL logic where it was just so self-evident. Also, there’s the pesky external reality that one can temporarily get away from with petaflops of CPU power and highres graphics but get away from the machine and there’s that reality one just can’t hack out of existence (yet). Would love to drop a bunch of the google sheeple into a remote area in the summer with basic survival equipment to see how they would make out. Reality therapy should be a far higher priority part of the job than making sure all of the hundreds of delusional “genders” were properly represented in work groups. Having flirted with the always connected/neural implant WiFi/silicon wetware intelligence augmentation around 20 years ago, finally came to the conclusion that while low bandwidth communication channels can be annoying at times, they serve a very necessary function of isolating computational units and providing much greater diversity and herd problem solving ability as a result of millions of autonomous computations in weakly linked processors rather than having a far less diverse hive mind.
    After thinking about this problem for the last few years, especially after reading Taleb’s book Antifragile, am just using internet for downloading digital documents, getting text only news/blog access but making my own backups of everything and printing out important documents. Store nothing in the cloud, and my next cell phone will be a totally open source device which I will use primarily for having a supercomputer I can attach to my belt rather than a communication device. The best depicion of google I’ve seen is in one of the very few movies I’ve watched in the last few years: The Circle. Classic hive mine there and it’s time for google to fade away and allow more robust organizations to take over.

  10. Disclaimer – I don’t get money from that site, or this plug. Duckduckgo (sorry about the dumb name) is an alternate search engine that (assures the user that it) doesn’t track you. It’s ~all I use anymore; I haven’t used Google for years.
    Anybody have any opinions or inside dirt on them?

  11. Duckduckgo is one way to stay away from The Google.
    Another one is Startpage.com No ads. Ever.
    I use both.

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