Last weekend was a tale of two commencement speeches. Both in Arizona, both to similar graduates. Eric Schmidt was booed. Harrison Ford was embraced. I listened to both. There's a lesson here about… | 🌀 Patrick Copeland | 18 comments — mattwood.fyi

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Last weekend was a tale of two commencement speeches. Both in Arizona, both to similar graduates. Eric Schmidt was booed. Harrison Ford was embraced. I listened to both. There's a lesson here about… | 🌀 Patrick Copeland | 18 comments

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First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority. Public backlash against AI-themed commencement speeches reflects the broader societal resistance to apocalyptic AI narratives that dd542040 critiques.

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The most interesting thing in tech: If you are going to give a commencement address in the next couple of weeks, do not mention AI or you might get loud boos. It happened in Florida last week; and it… | Nicholas Thompson | 70 comments The initial report of Eric Schmidt being booed for mentioning AI is expanded into a fuller comparative analysis of two commencement speeches.

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