I never imagined, 60,000 posts ago, that our country would be in so much trouble today.

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24. I saw one piece of really good news on the AI front

The only prominent AI scientist I truly trust, Yan Lecun, has finally left Facebook. I only saw this day before yesterday and I was very pleased:

https://www.businessinsider.com/yann-lecun-alexandr-wang-criticism-inexperienced-meta-ai-future-2026-1

AI pioneer Yann LeCun isn't sold on Mark Zuckerberg's $14 billion bet on Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old Scale AI cofounder recruited to lead Meta's Superintelligence Labs.

In a new interview with the Financial Times, LeCun, who was Meta's chief AI scientist before announcing in November that he was leaving to form his own startup, said Wang was "inexperienced" and didn't fully understand AI researchers.

"He learns fast, he knows what he doesn't know . . . There's no experience with research or how you practice research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher," LeCun said.

I would trust Yan Lecun as a scientist on all levels minus Zuckerberg/Alexandr Wang etc. He is the type of researcher I would trust with my data or home, much like this MIT Prof Ryan Williams (wrt algorithms). That is in stark contrast to how I feel about 99.999% of EECS majors in AI/big data etc.

I have a very low level of trust wrt CS overall as a field. Most of the field will only learn after some researchers and their flunkies face criminal harassment and criminal misconduct/malpractice charges imho.