Tech billionaires trying to solve the world's problems is a bit like a cancer trying to save its host from organ failure
they are not trying to solve anything really, they just think they are the next best thing earth has ever seen so they have the right to do everything
I'm working with a douchebag billionaire directly right now on a complex project related to the ransomware encryption of a healthcare provider. Because he's part of the private equity firm and a billionaire, he thinks he knows how to drive the resolution better than I and my team of techs do.
All he does is drag me into more meetings and force me to get my techs to do shit that's not conducive to restoring their systems.
He's a giant waste of self aggrandized trash.
Oof. I'm gonna use that. 👏
Wake me up when "ai" makes the amount of CO2 in the earth's atmosphere trend downward. Generative AI is just a way to burn electricity to take value produced by humans and then replace those same humans, all to line the pockets of the companies that can afford to churn all the data in the world.
For the handful of genuinely cool and interesting things it can do, the number of extremely awful costs and externalities is like 1000x worse.
Serious question: why does everyone in silicon valley have a god complex?
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I'm glad perspectives has stopped treating Sam Altman like a tech God. dude is second coming of every FAANG CEO and Elon combined. there's no way that guy isnt up to no good.
I get strong "ends justify the means" vibes.
The more I'm hearing, the more it sounds like the former board was justified in axing him
The problem is they went about it in a profoundly stupid way. The way they acted made it seem like he done something explicit and then they refused to actually elaborate. We still don't know what really happened.
Socialism for monopolies but not for starving and sick people.
Before he was a thundering asshat at Y Combinator, he started a mobile company that sold your location to brands called Loopt. He's a piece of work.
I am thinking of getting a tomtom. Tired of my phone trying to throw a fit when I disable location after I've figured out my way to my destination.
So much of this advertising economy depends on it and we just give it away.
I have no patience for things I’m not interested in: parties, most people. When someone examines a photo and says, ‘Oh, he’s feeling this and this and this,’ all these subtle emotions, I look on with alien intrigue.
Is he describing sociopathy?
Definitely the guy we want running the company that decides what the human race needs from computers, then.
Just confirming he has what it takes to be CEO. I wonder if there are other skills or that's it.
If he wants $7tn, he better pay for all the content he stole to do it. Fuck these guys, wanting to become unfathomably rich off other people's labour.
Fuck these people.
A “product” of any kind will not solve our problems.
A phone is a product, and it solves a lot of problems.
I used to print out mapquest directions to wherever I drove. Now I can just use navigation so I seldom miss turns on dark streets anymore.
Products can solve problems, that's why people pay for them
I think they mean existential problems, like our belligerent lumbering towards the violent self-destruction of humanity.
This is a face born to be punched. Much like the Zuckfuck or the Muskrat.
They should use that non-creepy picture of him.
Hm? Oh. Oh right.
For all our sakes, pray he doesn’t get it
It doesn't really go into why not.
If governments are going to be pouring money into something, I'd prefer it to be in the tech industry.
Imagine a cold-war / Oppenheimer situation where all the governments are scared that America / Russia / UAE will reach AI supremacy before {{we}} do? Instead of dumping all the moneyz into Lockheed Martin or Raytheon for better pew pew machines - we dump it into better semiconductor machinery, hardware advancements, and other stuff we need for this AI craze.
In the end we might not have a useful AI, but at least we've made progression in other things that are useful
What benefits to “AI supremacy” are there? Going to hand the keys to defense and the internet to it? What could go wrong…
Why not? Here's one reason - because the planet is burning from climate change and we need a shit ton more resources for solving it. It's unlikely that AI would help much with that. Of course the UAE isn't too interested in the world moving away from fossil fuels.
The US collects about 5 trillion in revenue a year. This fucker wants a budget on the scale of the biggest revenue of a country on earth. That's more power than the president has. Fuck this guy. Nobody deserves that much trust.
I'm GLAD we don't Tax him OR his TRILLION dollar company!
I'm just sick of seeing his jerkoff face.
Bruh
I'd be jumping on the ceiling with 700 AUD. The hell is he gonna do with 7000000000000 USD?
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