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Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

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Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

#11
> “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience.

This is being forced to listen to a former CEO talk about how amazing the products being built at the company he used to work at are. I'd have booed too.

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

#12
[dupe]

The American Rebellion Against AI Is Gaining Steam

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188310

Eric Schmidt booed at University of Arizona after praising AI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48172419

Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48096674

Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177107

An AI Hate Wave Is Here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173318

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

#13

We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al. “This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”

"Fuck you, got mine"

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

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post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>is bad for the environment, is bad for society Can't it be those too?

No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.

Entitled? Or something?

Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works.

Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%.

Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Consequences in the real world. When you always land on your feet or feel untouchable entitlement is 6 months away to a lifetime of clueless.

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

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post #15
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No way, it’s definitely 100% because college kids are entitled or something.

Entitled? Or something? Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works. Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%. Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Conseq…

I think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Entitled? Or something? Reactionary. At worst young kids are lazy (in selected cases only) and nieve about how work works. Entitlement comes from mental disorder or growing up in affluence like much of the upper 5%. Moreover, kids from middle to lower income brackets i think work harder, are more resilient, and take their education more seriously than those that just fall in Harvard. The underlying difference? Conseq…

I think the comment you are responding to meant that sarcastically.

Si

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

#18

> “It will touch every profession, every classroom, every hospital, every laboratory, every person and every relationship you have,” Schmidt said, as booing began to build in the audience. This is being forced to listen to a former CEO talk about how amazing the products being built at the company he used to work at are. I'd have booed too.

I mean they got Schmidt.. I think they failed at conception

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

#19
post #13

We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al. “This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”

"Fuck you, got mine"

Tale as old as boomer

Re: Graduates are booing pep talks on AI at college commencements

#20
post #13

We all have self-constructed identities. When threat of deconstruction presents itself, we react. E.g. my college degree isn’t worth what I thought it was, therefore I’m not the person I thought I was, therefore AI is evil, doesn’t work right, is bad for the environment, is bad for society, et. al. “This thing makes me feel less special, therefore I don’t like it.”

"Fuck you, got mine"

Most of the people I know worked pretty hard for what they have.
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