It’s quite terrifying how profoundly mindless these tech bro pseudo-prophets are - apparently incapable of understanding the world around them beyond the silliest level of superficiality, and yet enabled to have an outsized influence on the lives of future generations.
Are you familiar with the TESCREAL acronym, @thomaszimmer.bsky.social?
For decades, the conventional wisdom about Silicon Valley was that it leaned progressive. And by many measures (like donations by Big Tech employees to political candidates), the industry has been ali...
This whole argument is weird because I felt the film painted physics as a very exciting field. Maybe even to a fault. I can't imagine someone thinking that because a film had nuance and portrays the complexities of humans, it's discouraging people from exploring physics.
Meanwhile corrupt and concentrated capital keeps pumping them with funds for the promise of total control that AI provides by masquerading as humanity for manipulation. https://bsky.app/profile/thomaszimmer.bsky.social/post/3k36v4igo5m2e
No, no... I'm still processing how they imagined Oppenheimer would be a 'feel good, get the kids in tech' story. This isn't like Turing. There's no angle here that isn't "Hey, we made a weapon of mass destruction." I need to know what Sam thought that pitch sounded like. I need him to say it.
They reference famous stories to wrap themselves in heroic mythology, while actually identifying with the villains. It's not much different from their "joking" views on race/gender/class.
Privilege allows people to see critical thinking as an identity and something they inherently are, rather than a practice that takes constant effort.
The defunding of the humanities continues to take its toll on humanity.
I was hoping "The Wolf of Wall Street..."
If this screen shot hadn’t had context explaining otherwise I would have thought this was the most epic shitpost I’d seen in ages
There would be more physicists if wealthy “innovators” like sam altman funded companies employing physicists to do basic research long-term (like Bell Labs et al used to), rather than siphoning them into bullshit software startups producing nothing of value.