Giants buy up all the startups (see Facebook->WhatsApp) and talent. Also depletes academy & critical research. Only intra-giant competition. https://twitter.com/ceciliakang/status/922259919360884736 …
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The current start-up tactic is rarely competing with anyone, it is to be acquired and not at seven figures since that's available as salary.
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Academy remains the one place people with this kind of talent do research for the public good. But hard to compete with big money and data.
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Meanwhile, truly, some of the greatest minds of our generation are trying to figure out how to make people click on ads—as one ex-FBer said.
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That ad infrastructure being built is also the infrastructure for surveillance authoritarianism. Will it happen here? Don't be so sure.
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Anyone who is so sure that it won't happen here should ask themselves how likely they thought Trump would be president—just two years ago.
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Companies great at tech with obviously poor at understanding of people or history are building a giant, dangerous infrastructure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Very talented in one, albeit quite narrow domain. Enticed by money & research. Wish more used talent for public good https://twitter.com/IntegralWorks/status/922453106813743104 …
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Look, AI advances aren't hype. Every week is mind-blowing. And the harms of our new information infrastructure are already wide and deep.
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