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.
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.
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.
> 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.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 20.6 ms ] thread> 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.