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2-parts. features a ton of interviews with high level executives including the facebook "head of growth" and alex stamos who was the security chief. I thought stamos came out of th…

I think the green-washing comment is definitely on-point. co-opt the opposition and there is no opposition.

everything old is new again

Facebook helped me get laid in highschool. Hi jacqueline! That is at least one positive thing..

I agree.

Are you referring to master switch or attention merchants? been meaning to read both.

I don't know if THIS article was directed by Facebook related PR but the times reporting says there is other PR basically identical to this. So I think we can decisively label your…

:/ yeah.

not just jaron lanier! there are multiple thinkers who are fellow travelrs. Cal newport, Tristan harris, Nicholas Carr...

LOL. indeed.

how would hear about this story unless you are personally friends with alex stamos or zuckerberg or sandenberg? I am all for skepticism but blanket rejection of responsible journal…

yep.

I rendered my disapproval of Facebook by deleting it. That is the only action they care about.

too little too late but better than nothing.

1.mmmmmmmmm ok I am willing to accept you meant the quadratic loss instead of 0-1 error. that seems reasonable. 2. this is paper is centered in a research thrust that IS focused on…

have you heard of something called ERM? uniform convergence? The typical way of showing generalization in ML is to show that if we have some low or zero error solution on the test …

1. people overfit the baby datasets to zero training loss (MNIST) all the time. maybe you meant a "hard" dataset. 2. You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. This paper…

> Well, maybe because it's all done by a priest-caste cartel, shielded from reality in ivory towers, and then presented to the public in a similar way religion once was forced on p…

do you put your work in the arxiv?

There is a serious and well documented basis in neutral american and european media-going back decades. It reminds me of how so many smart people make decisions based on an anecdot…

I don't understand why you would publish this in nature instead of FOCs/STOC

there is a basis to at least some of these claims. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan_Khashoggi

Seals do a lot of direct action. Someone more qualified should explain how much direct action they do. I think a lot.

i think become a seal/green beret is pretty challenging !