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Frame House, Santa Bárbara de Nexe, Faro, Algarve, Portugal,

Pedro Domingos Architect

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Frame House, Santa Bárbara de Nexe, Faro, Algarve, Portugal,

Pedro Domingos Architect

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Gavin Newsom is the real Terminator: he destroyed San Francisco, now he's destroying California, and if you elect him president he'll destroy America.

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Casa Luum: the perfect getaway

Located in Algarve, Portugal’s southernmost location and beach side haven, Casa Luum is an architectural masterpiece envisioned by Pedro Domingos.  Embedded into a landscape occupied by hundreds of olive, almond and cork trees, this four bedroom villa merges white walls and concrete to provide a clean, relaxing feel. 

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“People worry that computers will get too smart and take over the world, but the real problem is that they're too stupid and they've already taken over the world.”    ― Pedro Domingos  

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Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence, by Pedro Domingos

In early December, I used social media to push back against this fairly obvious use of ideological litmus tests to limit what can and cannot get published. At first, I found plenty of support—as evidenced by the results of an (admittedly unscientific) Twitter survey. That was when a small mob of social-justice radicals—already well-known within the field—came after me, led by a California Institute of Technology academic who is also research director at a major tech company.

As so often happens in these confrontations, the discussion was derailed by hyperbolic accusations of racism. Naturally, the mob went after my university, and my own department distanced itself from my critique of the NeurIPS policy. In a matter of just a few days, submission protocols at an academic conference had attained the status of social-justice holy writ, with naysayers—myself foremost among them—denounced as heretics. The mob leader even wrote lengthy Twitter threads listing off the names of anyone who’d liked or retweeted my critiques of her position, suggesting they were all bigots.

But as the days passed, and it became clear who the real radicals were, something interesting happened. Many of the usually reticent moderates in our community began to speak up, and denounce the unhinged and ruthless tactics applied against me and my supporters. In the end, I suffered no professional consequences (at least not in any formal way). And the cancel crowd’s ringleader even issued a public apology and promised to mend her ways. She is no longer on Twitter, and we’re rid of the most vicious cancel-culture bully in the AI community. Topics that had been suppressed are now being freely discussed again in our forums. Dozens of computer-science faculty have even signed a letter to the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), our professional society, calling for an end to “the increasing use of repressive actions aimed at limiting the free and unfettered conduct of scientific research and debate.”

It’s a tale that illustrates a number of useful principles for those seeking to combat cancel culture. These include:

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I aspire to this level of pettiness

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Casa Luum, Santa Bárbara de Nexe, Algarve, Portugal

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