Google and the Gemini Debacle This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered. Toadworrier 18 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
The Ever-Shrinking Transistor and the Invention of Google The developments of the search engine and social media follow the usual path of innovation: incremental, gradual, serendipitous, and inexorable; few eureka moments or sudden breakthroughs. Matt Ridley 15 Jun 2020 · 14 min read
Quillette Podcast 41 – Ex-Google Software Engineer Mike Wacker on the Company's Liberal Bias Jonathan Kay talks to Mike Wacker, the ex-Google software engineer who was fired for exposing the company’s liberal bias. You can read Mike’s piece about working at Google here. Quillette 4 Jul 2019 · 1 min read
Facebook Has a Right to Block 'Hate Speech'—But Here’s Why It Shouldn’t The evolution of our content policy not only risked the core of Facebook’s mission, but jeopardized my own alignment with the company. Brian Amerige 7 Feb 2019 · 17 min read
Inside a Google Summit on Diversity and Inclusion Sadly, it doesn’t seem Google has learned much since James Damore’s firing. Joseph Klein 11 Dec 2018 · 6 min read
The Google Memo: A Counterfactual Response An employee offers an alternative take on the notorious Google Memo. Publius 22 Feb 2018 · 4 min read
The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond Psychological differences make equal outcomes impossible. Equality or diversity. You can’t have both. Lee Jussim / Geoffrey Miller / David P Schmitt / Debra Soh 7 Aug 2017 · 14 min read