{"id":72828,"date":"2019-12-19T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72828"},"modified":"2019-12-15T16:47:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-15T22:47:19","slug":"unserious-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72828","title":{"rendered":"Unserious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-03781-0\">Articles like these<\/a>\u00a0are the reason women in the sciences are not taken seriously.\u00a0\u00a0<br>Carmen and Leonie have PhDs in computer science.\u00a0\u00a0 Divya is a student of geology on other planets.\u00a0 They&#8217;re probably brilliant people in their fields but when they write stuff like this, they remind everyone of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/11\/17\/the-outrage-machine-insande-ado-about-sexist-shirt\/\">the shirt incident<\/a>, which reinforces the reason nobody wants women in the sciences.<br>There is a silver lining.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait for President Trump to issue an Executive Order directing all federal agencies to stop using the Supremacy Clause as Constitutional justification for federal laws over-riding state laws.\u00a0 Power to the People, baby!<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We take issue with the use of \u2018supremacy\u2019 when referring to quantum computers that can out-calculate even the fastest supercomputers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-019-1666-5\">F. Arute\u00a0<em>et al. Nature<\/em>\u00a0<strong>574<\/strong>, 505\u2013510; 2019<\/a>). We consider it irresponsible to override the historical context of this descriptor, which risks sustaining divisions in race, gender and class. We call for the community to use \u2018quantum advantage\u2019 instead.<br>The community claims that quantum supremacy is a technical term with a specified meaning. However, any technical justification for this descriptor could get swamped as it enters the public arena after the intense media coverage of the past few months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Read:   A tsunami of stupid, driven by an ignorant, incurious media, might cause idiots &#8211; invariably idiots on the left &#8211; to think &#8220;quantum supremacy&#8221; is a racist dog whistle.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>In our view, \u2018supremacy\u2019 has overtones of violence, neocolonialism and racism through its association with \u2018white supremacy\u2019. Inherently violent language has crept into other branches of science as well \u2014 in human and robotic spaceflight, for example, terms such as \u2018conquest\u2019, \u2018colonization\u2019 and \u2018settlement\u2019 evoke the\u00a0terra nullius\u00a0arguments of settler colonialism and must be contextualized against ongoing issues of neocolonialism.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s be honest &#8211; it&#8217;s not just women who publish this twaddle.\u00a0\u00a0Bowderiing science like this, if it jumps the banks of Moron Creek, will harm everyone, matter their pigment or genitalia.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Articles like these\u00a0are the reason women in the sciences are not taken seriously.\u00a0\u00a0Carmen and Leonie have PhDs in computer science.\u00a0\u00a0 Divya is a student of geology on other planets.\u00a0 They&#8217;re probably brilliant people in their fields but when they write stuff like this, they remind everyone of\u00a0the shirt incident, which reinforces the reason nobody wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,18,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-men-and-women","category-pc","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72833,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72828\/revisions\/72833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}