@timnitGebru And the relationship has to them trying to eliinate competition by erasing BIPOC history, firing BIPOC, and eliminating funding for BIPOC in higher ed...nothing proves you're meritocratic like being afraid of competition besting you and therefore doing your best to eliminate competition through buying a government.

@timnitGebru one important reason why US is quite ahead on the AI race is the US embargo on Chinese tech companies: https://www.techmeme.com/260723/p18#a260723p18

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@timnitGebru what does it even mean to ban a tensor

@timnitGebru oh I still remember how the whole AI bubble space reacted to DeepSeek R1 coming out. I ran out of popcorn!

@timnitGebru fully brought this was about EVs until the second paragraph

@timnitGebru It's always the same. They say they deserve a huge risk bonus because they make management decisions and could lose a lot. Well: It's you who decided to spend a fuckzillion dollars harvesting information for a product that can be built by anyone anywhere, with terrible economies of scale, stinky asset devaluation over time, and absolutely no valuable use case for paying customers. Now the curtain opened and you got the goat, so you should pay the losses from your risk bonus savings.

@timnitGebru Seriously. Those BYD EVs look really nice...

@timnitGebru If so-called "Free Market" capitalists weren't hypocrites, they'd simply evaporate. Hypocrisy is the fundamental force that holds their molecules together.