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Generous interpretation: instead of pearl-clutching over ethnicities and traditionalism America invited the world to immigrate and encouraged diverse ideas and industries. Other societies have shunned even foreign food and music (most countries barely have different races), never mind porn industry ('burn the degenerates'), space travel ('why waste money on the moon'), nuclear power, computers etc. Is AI not yet anot…

Isn't that generous interpretation, like, profoundly idiotic if he meant it? Major multiracial feature of America happened due to slave trade at the time when genocide of native Americans was also going on. Other countries have porn industry, actually a lot of it. Other countries have nuclear power, but America is just in one war claiming it wants to stop the other country from the nuclear power. Other countries typi…

I think thats missing the point. Being multiracial is a function of being open, not a means to the end. America is a can-do country that generally embraces new things, which includes 'new people' and new ways.

I'm not American but for all its faults I can see it is clearly miles ahead in terms of economics, innovation and generally being the worlds only "real" new-world diverse democracy.

Yes it is pretty much run by corporate interests and yes it has started almost every war in the Middle East in the past century for the benefit of AIPAC. Yes it has skipped almost all the benefits of socialism that I enjoy as a European, and of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world I think ~48 are in North and South America.

Other countries do not "typically have tons of foreign music" - China is 99% ethnic Chinese, black people are basically not even allowed in restaurants there. The same goes for India and much of Africa. Europe is closest and the UK probably bridges the attitudes of Europe and America the most - which is why the UK also pioneered things like computing and multiculturalism.

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It's very unclear what you're trying to say. Disliking something that is going to harm your future is going to harm you? You might as well say "don't care about your future". But if your dislike was for a different reason , it wouldn't harm you? Both implications seem nonsensical.

“I hate computers, so I refuse to use them” If AI becomes common place at work (I’d argue it already has), it clearly will hurt you if you boycott it out of fear or anger that the tech exists. It’s pretty simple

"Refuse to use them" is a strawman. Of course the graduates will use them. They will do whatever it takes to make a living. What they hate is that either they won't make a living or they will make a worse living because of AI.

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Rich sex pests engaged in a coordinated effort to destroy #metoo and protect themselves basically as soon as the movement started. You can even see a lot of this in the Epstein files. The backlash to #metoo was larger than the movement ever was (while not referring to the same event, Susan Faludi's Backlash is a great discussion of this). The effect is that a ton of these guys either experienced no consequence whatso…

Well, I believe we have officially entered the find out stage... And I love how easily triggered some people are on here by saying anything bad about the Kash Patel of the tech industry. Why can't we all just quietly stop asking his opinion on anything? When's the last time he wrote a single line of code? I'm guessing 30 to 40 years and he's the expert on the future of software engineering? Oh noze, triggered again.…

There was a dude Peter thiel was mingling with who died in strange circumstances.

Another buried case.

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Conservatives loves AI because they see it as it is: not a technology, but a political framework to force their ideology on everyone AI is first and foremost a political artefact: https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

I am no fan of the tech bros, but this is a trash heap of an article. First of all, it's ultra ironic that someone who is supposedly critical of big tech uses woke terminology ("marginalized people"). Big corpos basically created wokism: Thousands of Employee Resource Groups busy with "marginalized people-issues" are far more preferable to unions. And this example of western "fascism" is peak hypocrisy: "Ask an image…

okay bro, perhaps open a book and learn a bit. The "woke" terminology was coined by researchers. Studying actual subjects. Backed by research.

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> “If you’d let me make this point, please —” Schmidt said amid boos. “The point I’d like to make is choose a diversity of perspectives, including the perspective of the immigrant who has so often been the person who came to this country and made it better. America is at its best when we are the country that ambitious people want to come to. Let us not lose that.” How does that tie in? You have to like AI because of…

Wouldnt a "diversity or perpsectives" would include those that differ from that of Silicon Valley

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Actually partly yes, my grandmother was. That isn’t the point though, I just have an expectation that people should be treated fairly and not discriminated against regardless of their background and frankly many people who come here particularly from South Asia do not hold those values at all, and I’ve seen this negatively impact Americans from many different ethnic backgrounds.

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AI promotional strategies are profoundly and uniquely illiberal. AI leaders are not interested in open debate and they have demonstrated this again and again. Shouting this person down is the appropriate, humane response.

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> Schmidt urged graduates to embrace freedom, open debate, equality and the willingness to engage with those they disagree with. I think it was a great embrace of freedom and open debate to boo him for only asserting predictions that benefit him.

Shouting people down isn’t “open debate”.

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I echo their sentiments 100%, I doubt I'm alone here either.

I do, too, but a throwaway account busting into a conversation and screaming "everyone listen to me, me, me!" is a bit obnoxious, you know?

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