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Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem
- sleepytimetea 3y agoSorry, couldn't bother to read that rather long article that started with a reference to Nazis...kind of set the tone for the rest of the article and I would rather save 15 mins of my day.
- HPMOR 3y agoThis is an ad for Palantir. Wtf.
- sapphicsnail 3y agoWhat a bizarre read. He complains about tech companies and CEOs not taking stands based on personal beliefs but the one concrete thing he got mad about was a bunch of Google employees writing an open letter criticizing Google for taking military contracts. Must be rough being a Bush-era neocon in 2024.
- kr0bat 3y agoI stopped reading when he criticized Google's "Don't be evil" motto as a corporate say-nothing. Yes it's a truism, but I'd argue that it was chosen because software engineers value simplicity and conciseness.
- StreetChief 3y ago> The risk is that we have enabled a new class of technological leadership, whose capacity for forming its own authentic beliefs about the world has been severely diminished. > It is we, not our technical creations, who are to blame, for failing to encourage and enable the radical act of belief in something above and beyond, and external to, the self.