The critique of Silicon Valley populism is that populists don't actually care about science or want to fund it; they want to 'kill funding to Harvard just because they don't like Harvard,' preventing the necessary large-scale investments in scientific breakthroughs that Silicon Valley needed from government.
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“the populists don't care about science. They don't want to spend money on science. They want to kill funding to Harvard just because they don't like Harvard.”
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A.I., Mars and Immortality: Are We Dreaming Big Enough? | Interesting Times with Ross Douthat— Interesting Times with Ross DouthatCreated: 8/11/2026, 6:24:23 AM
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