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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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Is "accused of rape" and "raped" the same in your mind?
It's up to you to choose to who to believe about what happened on the yacht in the gulf of Mexico, the seventy year old billionaire cheating on his wife, or the thirty year old woman who accused him of forcible rape. There was some form of financial settlement, but it's still in private arbitration. The public documents said: “He followed me into a shower, slammed me against the wall, and forcibly raped me. I begged…
200 years ago people would have booed the industrial revolution. They shouldn't boo the amazing technology, but instead cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits.
Why would you think that will happen? You seem aware of, for instance, the Industrial Revolution and what it has ultimately resulted in.
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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”.
You might have had a point before a certain someone got shot in the neck for saying stuff. You don't anymore.
"Hateful woke culture" is actually a pretty apt descriptor. I've never seen violence being so widely, publicly supported and it doesn't seem far fetched at all to point to the intolerance of ideas in college campuses as a precursor to it. Acceptance of violence as a result to speech is at historical highs: https://www.fire.org/news/student-acceptance-violence-respon...
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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.
It's about time rich morons stop being treated as intellectuals just because they are rich.
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You are equating accusation of rape with rape. I shouldn't have to point out there is a big difference.
Until convictions of rape are justly meted out, you’ll have to stomach accusations taking justice’s place. Justice won’t just sleep. Blame wealth for making the corruption of the courts too damn obvious. Now they’re not taken seriously.
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> It had the vibe of “These people need to hear the Truth”. Schmidt anticipated the response, but does not understand it. He falls flat on his face here precisely because "needing to hear the truth" is a self-contradiction. The very fact that he has to go around saying 'AI is inevitable, suck it up you live in our world now', proves that it's not true. Nothing that is actually inevitable is declared as such. Nobody g…
AI is inevitable in the sense that if a country rejects the development of AI, it'll eventually end up subjugated military by the robots of a country that did invest in AI.
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I see a few comments on here that read "why is everyone so ungrateful and hysterical about this exciting new technology?" And I don't understand why people are surprised by this. All a young person is going to hear is "We're disrupting the world, automating employment opportunities, automating art and other leisure, innovating misinformation vectors, and also we think this technology might doom humanity. I know we're…
Because the first three sound completely awesome and the latter two are basically propaganda. "innovating misinformation vectors" and "might doom humanity" are far better descriptors for about every social network out there, or even the internet. These same people would probably riot if social media was made to disappear. As everything regarding college campuses opinion nowadays, it's down to politics. It's not about…
I agree. And now I'm to trust the same people with even more money and control over global data dissemination? No thanks
I'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…