Comment by abixb
25 days ago
Some of the people in the tech industry are, for lack of a better word, borderline insane.
They forget how it was literally initial government investments into DARPA and other organizations that laid the foundation for the long ascendance of the tech industry in Northern California, aside from huge pool of talented people imported from mostly Asia.
Even a good chunk of artificial neural network and "AI" research was NSF/government-funded, iirc.
I've been noticing a level of dislike for the tech industry that I haven't ever seen before among my fellow tech peers, and it's all squarely pointed at one thing — insane concentration of wealth, power and compute at the hands of private corporations.
They dont forget that. They dont care about any of that. It is a pursuit of a complete power, origins of DARPA are as relevant as history of typewriter.
And they are all on hackernews reading these comments, and often participating.