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Professor and public intellectual known for his work in linguistics, political activism, and social criticism. Major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of cognitive science.
Director of AI at Tesla. Previously a research scientist at OpenAI and CS PhD student at Stanford. I like to train deep neural nets on large datasets 🧠🤖💥
Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. @nichemuseums. Hangs out with @natbat + @cleopaws. He/Him. Mastodon: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
I have a place where I say complicated things about philosophy and science. That place is my blog. This is where I make terrible puns.
Anthropologist and anarchist activist. Known for his influential work in economic anthropology, including books such as "Debt: The First 5,000 Years," "Bullshit Jobs," and "The Dawn of Everything." Recognized as one of the foremost anthropologists and left-wing thinkers of his time.
English computer scientist, essayist, entrepreneur, investor, and author. Known for his work on the programming language Lisp, co-founding Viaweb (later Yahoo! Store), and co-founding Y Combinator.