Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem
time.comWhat 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.
I 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.
> 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.
This is an ad for Palantir. Wtf.
Sorry, 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.