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Terence Tao on the suspension of UCLA grants

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280 points dargscisyhp | 4 comments | 02 Aug 25 06:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mehulashah ◴[02 Aug 25 09:19 UTC] No.44765977[source]▶
This is a tragedy. Our pre-eminence as a scientific and industrial powerhouse that really began post WWII is now disintegrating because of the actions of a few. The funding being pulled from Terence Tao and his institute without due process is not the start, it's merely one casualty among many that began at the start of this administration. This is like cutting one's nose to spite one's face.
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austhrow743 ◴[02 Aug 25 09:54 UTC] No.44766166[source]▶
Punishing urban intellectuals for being urban intellectuals appears to be a common theme in a lot of right wing American messaging and the Republican Party won the popular vote.

You can’t put this on a few. It’s the genuine desire of the American voter.

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wisty ◴[02 Aug 25 10:42 UTC] No.44766451[source]▶
They think urban intellectuals have a fair bit of power.

They also think they are not always correct, not always unbiased, and possibly not always honest; and the bias tends to be towards either things that benefit the urban elite, or "luxury beliefs" that have disproportionate costs on other people.

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Eisenstein ◴[02 Aug 25 11:05 UTC] No.44766593[source]▶
No one is always correct or always unbiased or always honest, and everyone's bias benefits themselves, and every person in the United States lives in a way that has disproportionate costs to other people. None of those reasons explain any of the antipathy. What does?
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1. wisty ◴[02 Aug 25 11:18 UTC] No.44766655[source]▶
They think urban intellectuals have a fair bit of power.

And the basis for that power is that they are supposedly right about things.

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2. Eisenstein ◴[02 Aug 25 11:48 UTC] No.44766850[source]▶
Is it possible to not speak in riddles please?
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3. ben_w ◴[02 Aug 25 12:02 UTC] No.44766920[source]▶
I am confused why you see that as a riddle.

Group X does action A_x due to belief B_x. That B_x isn't logical or whatever doesn't matter. Members of group X generally don't know that group X is wrong, and instead think their own biases are common sense etc.

People are not perfectly rational spheres in a vacuum.

That you can substitute in a lot of different values for X, doesn't change any of this.

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4. Eisenstein ◴[03 Aug 25 14:54 UTC] No.44776974{3}[source]▶
Nothing they commented mentions any of the processes you did. A statement in which people need to figure out the specifics in order to make an interpretation is generally thought of as a riddle.