The Clash of Wrongs
I'd like to begin with a modified quote from Hegel: T he real tragedies in this world often arise not from conflicts between right and wrong, but from conflicts between two wrongs. Academia's past elitism, its cutthroat system of assigning credit, and its culture of keeping students and postdocs in poverty while forcing them into endless competition are wrong. But so are the tech bros and their accelerationist views, people don't care what happens to others, as long as they can position themselves on the side of the entrenched interests amid the potential chaos. Part 1, I want to say something to some of the people I know working in AI Many of you may have misunderstood the attitude of the theory (math/TCS) community. At least from what I've seen, most people in the theory community have never thought that AI producing research results was a bad thing. We simply don't think it's a good thing to keep churning out massive amounts of results without caring whethe...