pupperoni@pupperoni.bsky.social·2026-09-27T17:47:02.139Z
It's worth mentioning that Silicon Valley has been Like This for a long time, the rationalist/AI cult stuff is a newer angle on it. From 2018: www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/t...
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Melody@dominamelody.bsky.social·2026-09-28T12:03:47.180Z#
"Those men decided, in screening about 1,200 men and 200 women, that good programmers don’t like people - that they have a complete disinterest in people. These tests were widely influential and used at various companies for decades. What happens with that is that if you 1/
Melody@dominamelody.bsky.social·2026-09-28T12:03:47.181Z#
search for antisocial people, you will hire far more men than women. There’s no evidence to suggest that antisocial men are better at computers than women. But that stereotype has perpetuated to this day."
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com·2026-09-27T17:47:53.299Z#
Yup. I was at Stanford for a year getting a masters from 2013 to 2014 and I remember.
Mike Billips@mbillips.bsky.social·2026-09-27T18:36:17.296Z#
I went to Georgia Tech in the ‘80s and the notion of computer science nerds having a lot of sex offends me to my core. That is denying the very nature of nerddom and they’re only able to do it because they’re ridiculously rich.