You cannot have it both ways. Universities get billions in public funding and then turn around using that money to fund political activists masquerading as academics. Disciplines like sociology are now very open about the fact that academics need to be openly activist to advance. It's disingenuous to then complain about political pressure.
It's quite apparent from everything that has come to light that she got tenured for the same reason she got to be Harvard president. Merit was not one of the reasons.
There is a certain type of ex-software founder who likes the pose of philosopher king. They like to describe themselves as 'first principles thinker' but have never engaged in serious thinking since nobody challenges them on anything.
They often end up funding non-profits on AI policy, criminal justice or education reform with absolutely disastrous consequences for everyone who is not able to economically insulate themselves from the fallout. Typically, the things they end up funding espouse principles that fly in the face of everything that made them or their parents rich in the first place.
Everything I have seen and heard in interviews from this guy gives me this impression.
Apple loves to bully competitors and suppliers with both patents and app store. I doubt being on the other end of this will make them change their behaviour.
A cynic might say the Biden administration precisely achieved its goal. Appoint someone progressive with the right optics who has zero experience getting things done or governing in a larger organization. Gets nothing done. Corporate donors are happy.
Could be a good bet, very asymmetric. The question to me is if the execs are leaving because they know Cruise doesn't have it technically and the jig is up, or if it's really more temporary. Hard to know from the outside. It's also hard to translate Cruise's much worse human-intervention numbers (vs Waymo) into a quantative measure of 'behindness' in terms of how difficult it is to catch up.
It is absolutely True that most larger tech companies could run much leaner. Almost all projects that are done by many cross functional teams with lots of coordination overhead could be done by a small team of effective senior engineers.
Middle management, project/product empires mostly increase overheads with sublinear increase in output.
"We recognize that biological sex can be defined using multiple characteristics, including chromosomes, genitalia and hormones, each of which exists on a spectrum."
Is this the new land acknowledgement statement for biology? 'biological sex' exists on a spectrum?
n=1 (as a mid-profile AI researcher), but for me it's working in terms of Meta gaining my respect by open sourcing (despite the licensing disasters). They clearly seem to be more committed to open source and getting things done now in general.
Let's just be honest about CloudFlare. They write these hand-wringing posts occasionally to try to justify their 'policies', but their policy is quite literally 'block someone if enough people demand it on twitter'.