Meredith Whittaker on Nostr: IRL, no academic can afford to pay retail ($100b training runs, y'all). So, academic ...
IRL, no academic can afford to pay retail ($100b training runs, y'all). So, academic labs vie for access/proximity to Big Tech infra in pursuit of doing 'relevant' research--something that should alarm fans of academic neutrality/those concerned w conflict of interest. 3/
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