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Teaching AI policy at Columbia (https://nparikh.org/sipa6545). Previously Director of AI for NYC. https://nparikh.org
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The title is important too. It’s not West Texas. It’s far west. Beyond where the familiar things are. It is an amazing piece.
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There is a vastness and foreignness deep in it that others don’t understand.
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m.imdb.com/title/tt9182...
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“Far West Texas” episode of Anthony Bourdain will change many people’s ideas of what America is
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The problem now is, the effect of this required appropriate media reporting about how disgusting this was and people’s ensuing sense of disgust for the Raj. The media is so corrupt and Balkanized now that I don’t know if it would work the same way. It’s not obvious.
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I answered this question already and very clearly.
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There is a brutal scene depicting this in Attenborough’s film “Gandhi”. The protesters would walk up to the mine, get beaten with sticks and carried off, then the next line would walk up to get beaten. The National Guard is coming out with sticks too.
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No, I don’t think so, and I think we’ve made our respective points sufficiently clear now. Enjoy your weekend. The French Open is on.
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I mean, I literally changed my focus in my work for years to be around things in public service and teaching. I don’t make money from them. It’s a little annoying to get a big game talked by people whose main thing is to switch to Bluesky from Twitter.
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I think the out of line part is to make it a personal criticism. I mean, you essentially called me as a person immoral and unwise. So did somebody else. If you want to debate this specific thing reasonably, that’s fine. But that is excessive.
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If you’re talking about paying the company money which will help signal boost your posts, I don’t do that.
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I’m not paying anything. Yes, I’m extremely familiar with algorithmic feeds and what they do and the problems with the ones over there. They don’t affect technical tweets the way they affect people on there who want to debate the latest political news topic.
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It’s not some algorithmically driven audience … these are real students and real government officials and so on. They’re real replies and real conversations. The random bot liking my thing is not what we’re talking about here. I don’t have a typical account.
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I did the thing you want. I basically got off it a little after Elon bought it. I didn’t use it for ages. I posted this to agree with him and say I also did this because of a specific issue. And then people here are screaming at *me* for being immoral, unwise, supporting a Nazi site, etc. Really?
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Ok, then maybe you should be on *Twitter* trying to convince people to move or trying to write awesome stuff here and cross posting it there to incentivize people to come here and discuss or whatever. Not yelling at the people who are already clearly the most sympathetic to this.
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Dude, I did all that when I left. I’m not some hyper influential person. I have a modest sized account there and can’t make people leave. I think if you read the thing I quoted I was pretty clear why. I don’t know why you keep using engagement as some slur either. The purpose is to engage!
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I think I was quite clear in my phrasing that it was specifically this scientific funding issue that got me to go back there and try to help promote people’s awareness of what was going on. That was David’s point too.
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I do not think anyone made it sound obvious including @davidpfau.com who I was replying to in the original post. He also is no dummy and well aware of the trade-offs and problems with that site which is why both he and I tried to shift here. Maybe yell at people who didn’t even try to move not us.
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You have a reductive view of the situation. Twitter is not “funding” that attack. If Twitter disappeared Elon would still have money. If Elon disappeared, they would still be doing all this. Nothing is perfect and decisions involve trade-offs. Debate it, but there’s no need to insult me personally.
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Yeah, it is lecturing. I really don’t. I teach tech ethics and think about this stuff all the time and you work for a trillion dollar corporation. We all make trade-offs and I’m fine with mine.
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I’ve tried writing about math and other stuff on here. People are not interested in it. There you can reach grad students, young academics, all kinds of people who are genuinely interested. It’s not about some “dopamine” hit. I don’t have a blue check or all that.
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You can’t do that with network effects. If nobody else moves there’s little point to just writing into a void. It’s not about dopamine it’s about interacting with even a small handful of people with the same interests.
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I’m not sure why you have to make it so vitriolic and personal, but whatever.
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You really don’t need to lecture me about the problems with that site. I know. But there is just no real community interested in this stuff here.
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HSI used to be the “legit” part of ICE, going after cartel types, and ERO were these douche ones. But I’ve seen plenty of HSI people at these dumb raids and I guess they’re all getting deployed to Home Depot now.
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Unwilling to say the agency name?
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This over analysis has caused chaos because people don’t vote for who they like thinking other people don’t like that guy enough. Here, don’t worry about it. If that actually is true the process takes care of it. Don’t try to game it too much.
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It is extra funny because he already threw her under the bus and said he’s not endorsing her.
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I think there seem to be parts of Mastodon that have technical communities that have sustained themselves. But this *definitely* doesn’t have it.
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Should it have moved? Sure. I did myself. But overall it has not. Nor is it specific to “techy” things which is another typical slur people try to use as an excuse. Academics writ large and people in international policy etc are still there whether you like it or not.
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"Jesters do oft prove prophets."
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Elon really is a national security threat to the US so it would even be possible to make that stuff stand up in court, not that courts matter much at this level.
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Trump doesn’t care about that and is trying to do it anyway
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It really says a lot about the people of Maine, who must be grade A idiots.
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Yea and to him that’s all of them like the people in the Hurricane Center. This is all so unserious it’s exhausting
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He’s really not that skinny