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2017/08/08: James Damore and his Google Memo on Diversity (complete)

Jordan B Peterson · 656.2K views · 2017-08-09 · 51:10

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Overview

Jordan Peterson's roughly 50-minute interview with James Damore, the fired Google engineer, going through his diversity memo nearly line by line. The description links the scientific literature behind the claims.

On Hacker News

During the 2017 memo controversy, HN commenters pointed to it as Damore's own account and a detailed walk-through of the memo's sources.

Recommended by 8 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2017–2018

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What people said

dolevyao · 2017-08 · Strong recommendation

I highly, highly recommend watching Damore's interview with Jordan Peterson. I am starting to think that Damore might be on the right side of all of this. [VIDEO]

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kukx · 2017-10 · Recommendation

> This is why I dislike Damore. I don't care what his manifesto says ... Playing games is pathetic, dude. Well, according to his statement he was a top performer at Google, so we can assume he was not afraid of being replaced by a woman. Besides he just started a discussion in a response to, according to him, shady moves in regards of equality performed by Google. It is worth to listen to the other side: [VIDEO]

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boona · 2017-08 · Recommendation

It seems that HN is flagging all articles that mention the Google Memo. Which speaks to the need to have this conversation even more. For those who are interested, James has a new interview with psychology professor Jordan Peterson. [VIDEO]

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