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Angela Bassa

@angebassa
6 posts
2021-03-01
I can't even count the number of times I came across these types of “gates” over the course of my career (and life!). Sure, there's was an ESL language barrier initially... but then there's a *language* barrier when you're climbing the social ladder. https://www.thepullrequest.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-01 View on X
The Pull Request

Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one

Antonio Garcia-Martinez / The Pull Request : Tweets: @antoniogm , @benharnett , @angebassa , @kaylahroxout , @koehrsen_will , @sarthakgh , @elidourado , @tommycollison , @pkafka ,...

2021-02-15
The folks who like to think of themselves as “rationalists” may believe themselves above this, but I often relearn the lesson that humans are animals and that even the most seemingly (and self-styled) rational of us are just full of crap. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
Noahpinion

The NYT overstated the influence of both Slate Star Codex and the Rationalist community on Silicon Valley, and falsely portrayed the tech industry as right-wing

Stereotyping the tech industry as a bunch of secretive right-wingers isn't correct, and it isn't helpful.  —  11 hr ago

The folks who like to think of themselves as “rationalists” may believe themselves above this, but I often relearn the lesson that humans are animals and that even the most seemingly (and self-styled) rational of us are just full of crap. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-02-15 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

even inside newsrooms. This is depraved. https://twitter.com/... Robin Hanson / @robinhanson : “The ideas they exchanged were often controversial — connected to gender, race and in...

2021-02-14
The folks who like to think of themselves as “rationalists” may believe themselves above this, but I often relearn the lesson that humans are animals and that even the most seemingly (and self-styled) rational of us are just full of crap. https://www.nytimes.com/...
2021-02-14 View on X
New York Times

Examining the links between the Rationalist community, with Slate Star Codex blog as its epicenter, and influential leaders in tech, including OpenAI's founders

Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.  Then it disappeared.

2019-08-27
“People can have different views on whether it's worth exchanging data for airline miles or cash back. But how are we supposed to make informed decisions when we don't know where our data is going?” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-27 View on X
Washington Post

Deep dive on the byzantine tracking and analytics industry around credit card purchases and steps that consumers can take to improve their privacy

In a privacy experiment, we bought one banana with the new Apple Card — and another with the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa from Chase.

2019-08-16
“algorithms—and content moderators who grade the test data that teaches these algorithms how to do their job—don't usually know the context of the comments they're reviewing” Then what even is the point of the labeling exercise?! https://twitter.com/...
2019-08-16 View on X
Vox

Study: leading AI models to detect hate speech are 1.5x more likely to flag tweets by African Americans as offensive or hateful, partly due to social context

and content moderators who grade the test data that teaches these algorithms how to do their job—don't usually know the context of the comments they're reviewing” Then what even is...