Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · Aug. 14, 2017, 4 a.m.
There’s about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple of weeks ago. I think the case for any biological difference is pretty weak, and it bothers me when people refer to an “interest gap” as anything else than caused by the environment. Maybe because I have a daughter, maybe because I have too many female friends who told me stories how they were held back or discriminated against. But disregarding my own opinion here, something else kept me annoyed f...