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Thanks for posting this, it gives good added context that helped me change my original opinion.

I was quite familiar with Lecun's dust up with Timnit Gebru on Twitter, and I had a lot of sympathy for him in that situation.

I think it's quite sad that so much bad-faith argument has infiltrated academia to the extent that it has. Some may say it's always been that way, but it feels worse to me now. One of my "heroes" of unbiased rationality, Zeynep Tufekci, wrote a really good Twitter thread recently about how some of these flat out liars in academia manage to continue their lies unscathed with little pushback: https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1592210111359250432