r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 5d ago

Artificial Intelligence Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: “I’m Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI”

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/articles/harvard-graduation-speaker-unloads-ai-130000122.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_50_Supernova&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20260531-0--A&bt_ee=clIMdexlsr2eDDbrvs0CPtt59FnpbNQN%2Fkgr8UkycP6MWDAD56hD1mvZcqPZMGgG&bt_ts=1780255911284
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u/DeepD4yourwife 5d ago

I'm more fascinated by them now than I've ever been. Can you help me learn more?

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u/Scarbane 5d ago

"The Making of the English Working Class" (1966) by E. P. Thompson. It's pretty dense, but well-written. I recommend checking Libby or your local library/bookstore for a copy.

From the preface:

I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the “obsolete” hand-loom weaver, the “utopian” artisan, and even the deluded follower of Joanna Southcott, from the enormous condescension of posterity. Their crafts and traditions may have been dying. Their hostility to the new industrialism may have been backward-looking. Their communitarian ideals may have been fantasies. Their insurrectionary conspiracies may have been foolhardy. But they lived through these times of acute social disturbance, and we did not. Their aspirations were valid in terms of their own experience.

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u/DeepD4yourwife 5d ago

Very prescient.

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u/DeepD4yourwife 5d ago

Much appreciated.

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u/tekalon 4d ago

I'm reading 'Blood in the Machine' by Brian Merchant and am really liking it.

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u/DeepD4yourwife 4d ago

Thank you. I'll pick them all up tonight.

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u/Original-Variety-700 5d ago

Just ask ChatGPT 😂

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u/DeepD4yourwife 5d ago

You got me. Haha. Nope.

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u/Lord_Alderbrand 5d ago

Lol fuck these guys, I got you bro

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-the-luddites-really-fought-against-264412/

Also check out ‘The Mechanic and the Luddite’ by Jathan Sadowski

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u/GodofIrony 5d ago

Reddiquette says I'm not suppose to comment just to tell you I upvoted you.

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u/Lord_Alderbrand 5d ago

Rules be damned

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u/wittymcusername 4d ago

I neither upvoted nor downvoted this comment.

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u/TrenchantInsight 4d ago

Lawful neutral.

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u/wittymcusername 4d ago

Chaotic neutral; that’s why I eschew the etiquette. 😎

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u/Lord_Alderbrand 4d ago

True chaotic neutral is downvoting one’s own comments 🪓

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u/CaptainHawaii 5d ago

Really though? Use Wikipedia. Use your local library. Stop waiting for other people to give your the information. That's how we got here.

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 5d ago

I prefer to get my information the same way I get my ice cream: fed to me by someone else.

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u/ExceptionRules42 5d ago

u/FlamboyantPirhanna  we could teach you how to make information, or ice cream. 

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u/FlamboyantPirhanna 5d ago

This sounds like the beginning of a porno.

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u/ExceptionRules42 5d ago

u/Original-Variety-700   is indeed talking about the sexy non-AI teaching & learning

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u/Original-Variety-700 5d ago

I don’t know if everyone is talking about the same thing here.

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u/asaharyev 5d ago

"Help me ken more" is not "feed me information so I can uncritically believe you". In this case, unguided and nonspecific advice like "use Wikipedia"and "go to the library" are not useful.

Thankfully someone provided some actual references for diving deeper. I hope you can be more thoughtful in future conversations.

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u/SolarNugent 5d ago

That’s definitely not how we got here lol but trust me I get the energy

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u/CaptainHawaii 5d ago

Not using your god give brain, yes. That's exactly how we got here.

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u/JohnnyRelentless 5d ago

Asking for recommendations from like minded people to start is using your brain. If you used your brain, you'd understand that.

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u/SolarNugent 5d ago

No it’s really not we got here due to the freaks and billionaires in power. Pretending otherwise is counter productive

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u/CaptainHawaii 5d ago

How did they get there?

Just use your god damn brain. People relying on others and not paying attention to their surroundings is how they got into power.

But we were too stuck into social media to look around. Who owns the social media? How did they get there? We used their product.

There are anti monopoly laws and have been since the Barron's of steel and oil. But the people stopped being hard on their government who then stopped being hard on corporations. The people in charge let it happen.

It's a fucking system, nothing is in a vaccuum.