New comment by 329a8Hqag in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

329a8Hqag — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:45:15 +0000

It means nothing, as you imply. He is improvising and deflects with a point that he thinks will land with his audience and detract from the issue.

New comment by 329a8Hqag in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

329a8Hqag — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:43:14 +0000

The magazine is funded by:

https://berggruen.org/projects

The investment arm for this influencer fund is:

https://www.berggruenholdings.com/

The fund is invested in AI and Berggruen pushes the AI/UBI narrative:

https://www.ft.com/content/9b93e02a-c693-4070-9094-a2f532dfa...

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolasberggruen?trk=public_post...

You can already see from the glossy website that this is a well funded propaganda magazine, just like Quantaagazine is essentially funded by the Renaissance Fund, which is invested in AI.

Yes, these magazines do have interesting articles from time to time, but the overt materialistic (not monetary, but anti-idealistic) worldview that traditionally only appeared in communist countries suddenly infests all the rich people's outlets.

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New comment by 329a8Hqag in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

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