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There is huge information asymmetry at play here that just cannot be communicated through the media, social media or a hn post.
Or as I would say to a second grader, if you want to understand things your cousin in college is talking about put in 10 years of work. If the internet gives you the impression that everything that you can't make sense of is one ted talk/one reddit ELI5 post away, that's just wrong.
This expectation has to change. Otherwise we end up with more and more people who don't understand the work it takes to know anything deeply.
Tech CEO's have to address the outsourcing/factory shutdowns and visa misuse that has happened for a couple decades now. Using the Obama line of "well those jobs have gone and wont come back" creates space for characters like Trump to exploit.
The plan was to teach kids about how websites works/HTTP basics, basic HTML/JS etc. I had all the material and code ready. When I reached the school I found out their internet had been disconnected!
Google's "browser is offline" T-Rex game popped up and I ended up spending the entire week with them teaching them how that game worked. It was a big hit! By the end of the week they were busy modifying the t-rex sprites with each others faces and stuff :)
Basically have a back up plan for no/limited internet!
Anyone else planning to leave and poach people will have to do "a little more covering their bases".
It really comes down to what top level leaders within the org think the longterm payoff is.
Even in areas where they do match up tech-wise Auto, Nokia, Airbus/Ariane etc maybe they need a Elon Musk type to do some ass kicking.
If this was allowed, and Donald Trump is putting up his documents on the internet and referencing them on his wikipedia page would you allow it? It can do a lot of damage and people and organizations do this all the time and every day.
This is the kind of behavior the policy exists to prevent. Its well known that it isn't perfect Please read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
The paid versions are called Google, Palantir, the CIA etc.
Disdain has its purpose. I probably should be using it better I will admit.
EDIT: to be clear I don't think Trump is qualified
1. If a tumor is incorrectly identified (and it happens a lot) no one realizes it until much later. In many cases the radiologist never knows what the outcome of the detection was. The patient could have been unnecessarily operated, put on year long drug schedule for no reason etc. Unlike anesthesiology where the results of any action are more or less in your face.
So all these AI startups are going to be training on very incomplete data.
2. More detection more profit. There is no incentive to minimize false detections. The entire system from the radiologist, to the doc/hospital visits, to surgeons, to pharma, to the equipment manufacturers from false detections. Nobody is getting paid to reduce false detections.
So all these med AI startups are going to do quite well for themselves whether they actually benefit the public or not.
Just think about what it takes to be sitting on top of the massive hierarchy that is the govt.
If there is an issue X you need to know who to talk to, who to trust, who has power and influence to make things happen, what you can offer them in return etc etc. How the fuck was Obama ever qualified to know all that?
So if you have an issue with Education or Pakistan or Wall Street lots of delegation happens to random people who have their own agendas.
So what happened in his first couple years, was he was just used by much more savvy operators. And once he realized it, he spent the remaining years trusting no one.
You can't take someone with a few years of real world experience put them in charge of a massive org and expect them to know what they are doing.
But unfortunately as Daniel Kahnemen says there is huge demand for overconfidence. So we end up with leaders like Obama and Trump.
While we are making recommendations about what people with issues should be doing with themselves, let me add, on the other end of the spectrum - overconfident, mindlessly ambitious characters in society, should be sent off to explore the deep sea, climb mountains etc. So that whatever random goal they are chasing has minimal impact on society at large.
If you want to know why its "often" and not "always" visit your nearest library and take a look at the size of books on the subject.
And here lies the problem with the internet today and the comment boards such as these. People will actually walk away reading these kind of 2 minute summaries thinking they know something about the subject at hand. And on top of that you can get yourself a great rep "educating" and "informing" the public without ever actually "educating" and "informing" the public.
Plus the quality of political expression imho on these platforms has gotten so low in terms of signal to noise that I don't think it would be a great loss to society.
The speed and reach of a message on social media today is unprecedented. Such platforms need ways to retard the flow of ignorance. That would really be the goal. And there is enough evidence to show that journalists and politicians are benefiting the most from such flows.
There is 10 years of training data out there, which should cover everything most politicians and journalists are ever capable of coming up with.
Both have more to gain than loose by pandering to the lowest common denominator, and that's what they do consciously and subconsciously the whole day.
As Daniel Kahnemen has said there is high demand for overconfidence these days.
And the tech industry has blindly satisfied that demand by creating platforms that prop up characters like POTUS. Not just in the sphere of politics but you can see this within your family, friends, teachers, scientists, religious and biz leaders basically everywhere you look.
If we want solutions that trend has to be reversed.
And its not just advertising most entertainment/propaganda/marketing is designed to just get an instant reaction. No contemplation necessary. Kind of like porn.
And if we have to be honest hacker news is very similar. Nobody needs this much news.
The machine that produces celebrity/consumerism today is a hyper efficient over optimized machine.
He is basically saying people didn't get what they need.
And that's because the celeb/consumerism machine's only job is to keep giving people what they want.
What they need has nothing to do with it. Whether its Obama or Trump, Zuckerberg or Musk, subprime mortgages or iphones it's all about what people want and not need.