Islamophobic Remarks :
The creator of Anneal, a firm supported by YCombinator, Tyler Kahn, tweeted: “You don’t just get consciousness; you have to grow up with parental and societal guidance.” Every infant is born a mindless savage, similar to the first humans or the most primitive uncontacted tribe you could discover deep in the Amazon rainforest. Consciousness only emerges and develops after a highly complicated process of development. A stop sign at a crossroads, for example, encodes a significant amount of developmental material. In essence, a large number of these individuals have lower consciousness levels as a result of their civilizations’ failure to instill it.”
It’s unclear to what kinds of “societies” he alludes, however the tweet he’s responding to appears to allude to either Palestinian or Muslim societies. All the same, his opinions about the native tribes of the Amazon (“most backwards”, on the level of a “unthinking savage”) seem problematic.
Bio :
Tyler Kahn is a co-founder of Anneal, a social media network that uses generative AI tools to allow users to create and share short-form video content.