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What a grotesque smear disguised as news. This article is pretty clearly trying to say that “the head of AI at Meta” is a deviant freak without actually saying
by AbrahamParangi 4y ago
What a grotesque smear disguised as news. This article is pretty clearly trying to say that “the head of AI at Meta” is a deviant freak without actually saying that.
- nathan_compton 4y agoWeird take, my dude. The article doesn't have anything to do with dominance and submission as a sexual kink (except perhaps as a tongue in cheek joke). Besides, like no one cares about that shit anymore and it hardly even constitutes deviant behavior in the contemporary world. No. The article is pretty forthright in describing a relatively straightforward view on the part of LeCun that nature is primarily about dominance and submission and that human culture has inherited that structure as an inevitability. I'd argue that this is _at least_ simple minded and somewhat short changes both nature and culture. Given that AI is supposed to change the face of the world in the next few decades, I'd prefer if its luminaries weren't so simpleminded.
- pharrington 4y ago"Has Some Interesting Beliefs" is being used as understatement. "kept things extremely normal" is commonly used sarcasm. The article ends with the author saying they're puzzled by LeCun's posts, and asking if the reader is too.
- nathan_compton 4y agoI do think the article definitely has a point of view. LeCun's beliefs about human society and nature aren't really that unusual and so the tone of the article is arguably a little hyperbolic. But I think its a pretty far cry from a pure character assassination.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoIt’s a pure character assassination because you’d never write this about someone you weren’t already willing to write a hit piece about.
- nathan_compton 4y agoI just don't see it. From my point of view LeCun's opinion is 1) newsworthy since he is a luminary and 2) worthy of critique in light of both the advancements in AI recently, their implications for society, and the relative superficiality of his comments. I think we, as readers, should cultivate a little endurance for this kind of work. Yes, there is an opinion here, and yes, its expressed in a little bit of a fun way, but its a stretch indeed to think this is some kind of nefarious hit piece.
- AbrahamParangi 4y agoI think endurance is reasonable as a reader, but I also think this sort of discourse is of no value to anyone but the writer, and certainly not to us. It’s a cool ranch dorito of an article. It tastes moderately good, has no real content, and leaves you a little worse off for consuming it.
- tootie 4y agoThe article is just describing what happened. It isn't denouncing Lecun, just describing the push back and response he got from other people.