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Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
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Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
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I'm sorry, can you explain what the link with "woke" is in this video?
People used to treat angry-student politics and the views of the noisiest, angriest students with the correct amount of derision.
That stopped ( as seen here ).
And, worse, social media has let those angry students drive debate, which has led to the rise of the hateful woke.
And, still worse, students are no longer being educated to be critical but to accept one side and hate the other.
Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
#43I've noticed, as a student, that many college students - particularly those not in STEM/engineering fields - have an almost irrational hatred of AI. It's to the point where they'll mock you for using it, even when it provides such an insane productivity boost. I understand the disdain for trying to inject the concept everywhere, and like any new technology, it's apt to be used where it is unneeded, and mentioned when…
> You can't turn your back on a helpful new technology just because it shakes things up
Watch them :)
Seriously though, this happens every time technology is introduced, for better or worse.
And while it's annoying, it's actually very helpful too, but you need to get further into your understanding than the emotion arguments people usually have front and center in their mind, because there is real criticism that has real value in there, it's just behind all the annoying knee-jerk reactions.
But again, this happens over and over, every time, seemingly in every community. Even HN has these soft spots, maybe not for AI but for example blockchain and cryptocurrencies are still subjects that somehow bring out these knee-jerk reactions to people (again, sometimes for good reasons, although the initial reaction masks the real cause).
Best we can do is listen and actually understand, instead of just brushing it away as "irrational hatred", because it always comes from somewhere, sometimes personal reasons, sometimes illogical reasons, but always because of something.
Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
#44I've noticed, as a student, that many college students - particularly those not in STEM/engineering fields - have an almost irrational hatred of AI. It's to the point where they'll mock you for using it, even when it provides such an insane productivity boost. I understand the disdain for trying to inject the concept everywhere, and like any new technology, it's apt to be used where it is unneeded, and mentioned when…
I find my hatred of AI to be incredibly rational, and the cultlike veneration of the “insane productivity boost” it gives you to be truly irrational (whether or not that boost actually exists).
Productivity as the be-all-and-end-all of personal aspiration exemplifies what is rotten in our industry and society at large: more for the sake of more, faster for the sake of better, no matter the consequences and with certainty no mind for the quality.
Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
#45I’m reasonably certain that Schmidt anticipated that reaction after the first speaker was booed. It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”.
The only ones that need to hear the truth are the speakers not realizing they are first to go in civil uprising over mass unemployment
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#46my best friend is a high school english teacher. he said the worst part is kids keep hearing 'it's inevitable,' the complete integration of AI into every facet of life and thinking is gonna happen no matter what anyone says or does. this is the most manipulative and untrue thing anyone could say to a kid scared of a certain kind of future. its it's own kind of misinformation to tell people that something that will ta…
In my 20+ years of career it has definitely felt the most tyrannical rollout of a technology I ever experienced. Every other world-transforming technology I got in contact with was more organic: the personal computer, the internet, high-speed internet, the smartphone, all of those followed the usual adoption curve. Even technical tools like cloud computing which carried a bit of the anxiety from execs about "being le…
To some extent, I also think the global mood around Silicon Valley has soured. I remember just starting university when Facebook was taking off in the UK, and there was genuine buzz and excitement around being able to keep up with all your old friends. Years marched on and we started to uncover all the problems with social media, and their carelessness around their own impacts to society, so most people I know who were excited in 2010 were desperately finding ways not to be there.
Now, a different handful of San Francisco companies are asking for lots of money to disrupt society, and I'm just not interested.
Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm sorry, can you explain what the link with "woke" is in this video?
disagreeing with something is part of discourse? booing is a practice as old as the practice of giving lectures in front of an audience. there's nothing 'newfangled' or 'woke' or 'scary' about booing something.
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Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
#48I’m reasonably certain that Schmidt anticipated that reaction after the first speaker was booed. It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”.
Eric Schmidt also raped a woman forty years younger than him, the students were objecting to that as much as the AI. Maybe don't schedule public speaking events after being accused of rape if you don't want to get booed.
"don't be evil"
Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
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“Hateful woke culture”? You know the “woke” people are on to something when their critics project their own flaws back onto “woke culture” as a means to delegitimize it.
“Woke” is a reaction to hateful culture.
“Hateful woke” is the modern “reverse racism”.
Re: Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn’t every day that Big Tech execs get to hear the truth of everyperson sentiment.
I don't think college campuses are exactly representative of "everyperson sentiment". There was a time in which they deserved some respect, as a result of free exchange of ideas among intellectuals. That's far behind by now.
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