Neal Parikh
Teaching AI policy at Columbia (https://nparikh.org/sipa6545). Previously Director of AI for NYC. https://nparikh.org
- If you are in NYC the next two weeks, go!
- I’m not about to compliment these judges. This is all way too slow and way too small and just pathetic. This is a few individual people and they’ve still mostly failed and those people have been abused for months already. No one has faced consequences. And these are the *best* judges.
- This is one of the craziest AI episodes I’ve ever seen and I literally teach a whole class in part about when these things don’t work properly. None of the syllabus spent time on “well sometimes a deranged Afrikaner gets in there”
- Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It isn’t worth much else. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...
- Nobody ever is explicit about this because the things they would suggest are inevitably meaningless ultra-wonky things no voter understands and don’t matter at all or things that are blatantly abhorrent like “I don’t care about illegally deporting or killing X people” which they don’t want to state.
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- Part of the problem with these trade deals is Trump’s palate is so poor we are unlikely to even get anything as funny and good as Bush’s “nuclear mango” deal, which got the US at least some decent mangoes in exchange for nuclear cooperation, hilariously. www.thejuggernaut.com/indian-mangos
- Do Afrikaners actually even want to come to the US? I don’t know what he’s doing here.
- I really hate this dude’s account. But again, not because of him.
- Kind of confused by this. What’s he talking about? I don’t really see a problem with media using excessively aggressive language?
- I experienced this many times as a startup founder (kind of an annoying term since it’s so negative to people now). But anyway, there were many times I felt, here is a place we would get more money if we were dicks. It’s terrible. I did fine but might have done financially better if I were meaner.
