Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem

Silicon Valley Has a Harvard Problem(time.com)

14 points by ivstitia 2 years ago | 5 comments

What 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.

kr0bat 2 years ago | |

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.

StreetChief 2 years ago |

> 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.

HPMOR 2 years ago |

This is an ad for Palantir. Wtf.

sleepytimetea 2 years ago |

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.