Meredith Whittaker

And then this is something I'm theorizing a lot in my intellectual work, and I think is really important. You also see what I'm calling the politics of intellectual shame be really pervasive in this conversation. And this is not just Europe. This is across the board. I mean that there is a real...

a real fear among a lot of people who are in decision-making positions, politicians or academics or whoever, and not even in decision-making positions, but it matters when it's them, of being stupid about tech. of being behind the ball on tech. And this plays right into patriarchal dynamics, like men hate when someone else knows something more than them, and particularly if that's a small woman.

a real fear among a lot of people who are in decision-making positions, politicians or academics or whoever, and not even in decision-making positions, but it matters when it's them, of being stupid about tech. of being behind the ball on tech. And this plays right into patriarchal dynamics, like men hate when someone else knows something more than them, and particularly if that's a small woman.

a real fear among a lot of people who are in decision-making positions, politicians or academics or whoever, and not even in decision-making positions, but it matters when it's them, of being stupid about tech. of being behind the ball on tech. And this plays right into patriarchal dynamics, like men hate when someone else knows something more than them, and particularly if that's a small woman.

I think we enjoy it right now.

I think we enjoy it right now.

I think we enjoy it right now.

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Yeah. Well, you all are...

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generally and i don't i don't want to gender this like in such a schematic but there is a there is a there's an ego that is like can be very very fragile here and i the way i put it before is it kind of turns uncertain men into yes men like they don't want to ask the dumb question they don't want to be like what's an llm what's a server like how does that work and that type of insecurity the fear of being behind the fear of being called like you know

generally and i don't i don't want to gender this like in such a schematic but there is a there is a there's an ego that is like can be very very fragile here and i the way i put it before is it kind of turns uncertain men into yes men like they don't want to ask the dumb question they don't want to be like what's an llm what's a server like how does that work and that type of insecurity the fear of being behind the fear of being called like you know

generally and i don't i don't want to gender this like in such a schematic but there is a there is a there's an ego that is like can be very very fragile here and i the way i put it before is it kind of turns uncertain men into yes men like they don't want to ask the dumb question they don't want to be like what's an llm what's a server like how does that work and that type of insecurity the fear of being behind the fear of being called like you know

technically unsophisticated or hampering progress or putting your finger on the scales of science look the nobels how could you stand in the way of all this progress right i think really gives the upper hand to the companies and those who have an interest in creating products and you know growth and domination via these technologies because people really don't want to challenge them because you know challenging their dominance or or their plans you

technically unsophisticated or hampering progress or putting your finger on the scales of science look the nobels how could you stand in the way of all this progress right i think really gives the upper hand to the companies and those who have an interest in creating products and you know growth and domination via these technologies because people really don't want to challenge them because you know challenging their dominance or or their plans you

technically unsophisticated or hampering progress or putting your finger on the scales of science look the nobels how could you stand in the way of all this progress right i think really gives the upper hand to the companies and those who have an interest in creating products and you know growth and domination via these technologies because people really don't want to challenge them because you know challenging their dominance or or their plans you

gets conflated with somehow being anti-science or being stupid about tech or not being smart enough to have a position on a topic. And I think that's something because I kind of came up through Google asking every dumb question in the book because I didn't come from that world, right? So I had to ask like... how does a computer work? Right.

gets conflated with somehow being anti-science or being stupid about tech or not being smart enough to have a position on a topic. And I think that's something because I kind of came up through Google asking every dumb question in the book because I didn't come from that world, right? So I had to ask like... how does a computer work? Right.

gets conflated with somehow being anti-science or being stupid about tech or not being smart enough to have a position on a topic. And I think that's something because I kind of came up through Google asking every dumb question in the book because I didn't come from that world, right? So I had to ask like... how does a computer work? Right.

I'm like, I'm like, can someone diagram what a function is? I don't know any of this stuff. Right. Um, but I kind of, I think I have a sensitivity to that. Cause I also, I remember feeling it. I remember people being mean about it.