From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 19:33:15 MDT
"O'Regan, Emlyn" wrote:
>
> > It is true that most women have
> > only picked up using PCs (and usually start off with macs) in the last
> > 4-5 years. Prior to that my experience tells me that women have had a
> > greater distrust of the technology, with no rational basis for the fear.
> >
> > Mike Lorrey
> >
> Did we all somehow fail to notice the very male-oriented (I would have said
> masculine, but that's not quite right) geek culture surrounding computing up
> to the present day?
Gaussians! Always making cultural stereotypes!
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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PS: Yes, that was a self-referential joke. Had I not been joking, I
would have said "Gaussians! Approximately 84% of them engage in
cultural stereotyping at least once a month!" The numbers are
arbitrary, but you get the idea...
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