An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
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Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#2What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists?
The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#3What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists? The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
im not justifying it, but its easier to do research at a place like FB than in a university these days
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#4What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists? The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
We need an Operation Paperclip for Facebook talent.
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#5What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists? The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
What's the alternative? Google? Baidu?
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#6What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists? The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
Dataset.
AI is nothing without high-quality datasets: without ImageNet, there will not be deep learning.
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#7What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists? The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
Simple, not everyone share the same concern regarding privacy or those sjw stuff, moreover fb has vast amount of data and also funding, it's very suitable for AI research.
Even if he refuse to work with fb, pretty sure a lot of other people will be happy to replace.
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#8If he gave away all the profits he made from Facebook and put out the book for free, then maybe I'd consider his feedback.
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#9What I struggle to understand is how could esteemed AI researchers like LeCun and many others work for such a company to give it even more powers and edge? How can they justify this as scientists? The huge influx of money into research (here AI, but could be anything in the future) combined with the disfunctions of academia is very troubling.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
-- Upton Sinclair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair)
Re: An Anti-Facebook Manifesto, by an Early Facebook Investor
#10I understand this is a manifesto, but really the dialogue around Facebook and social media has truly become unhinged. Facebook is just a symptom, it seems
What is there to be _done_? Pandora's box is open, so to speak. If Facebook disappeared overnight, are we really going to assume the problems they're in are going to go away?
Everyone is potentially connected to everyone, everywhere, on the entire planet. There has never been a technology so powerful as the centralized internet.
Furthermore, outside of media companies and the HN bubble, people _do not care_. Your average person doesn't care about decentralization, preventing social media addiction, gamification, or polarization of online communities.
To the contrary the market shows that companies like FB are massively successful.
So what are we to do? The world has been changed, drastically. Were we ready for it? And if we somehow were rid of Favebook, are we ready for what follows?