Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
This is a shameful situation. We need to all wake up and take a step back and realize what&#x27;s happening here: increasingly you can&#x27;t have a conversation about one issue unless you are a hundred percent pure in the eyes of a frankly self-proclaimed judge jury and executioner for 100% of your other views.<p>I am of the left myself but on a meta-level what we&#x27;re doing is essentially making it impossible to ever find middle ground on issues if we&#x27;re unable to talk to folks who we don&#x27;t agree with on 100% of things.<p>This is a dangerous trend for all of us because it makes it impossible find common ground in an open democracy even if half the country in our eyes have essentially deplorable views, we need to recognize that they feel the same about us and then it&#x27;s simply not constructive to be unable to find common ground.