May they forever live in existential fear and require personal security for the rest of their pathetic lives
The datacenter growth model has to stop now
The financial markets are starting to punish companies for throwing everything into AI
Good. These execs fucked with our lives and killed a lot of people. Let’s see how they like living in fear of retaliation.
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Are you willfully obtuse or have you not been outside in the last five years…?
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What an extreme goal post shuffle from “what does Facebook have to do with AI” where there are innumerable examples of Zuck’s stupid post Metaverse bullshit to “just link me an article where the terminator crawled out of a data center and killed Americans”. I’m trying to see how you’re arguing in good faith and coming up so blank.
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It may come as a surprise, but non-Americans are ALSO people.
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Aah, the mass delete of comments by the person who made them only makes it even more sweet. You can’t handle being wrong so instead of sticking by what you say (which is dumb in itself) you delete the comments because you’re downvoted and that you are objectively wrong. You seriously only put another nail in the coffin by removing the comments.
Absolutely hilarious!nah you guys are basically trump supporters but wearing blue instead of red, it gets tiring arguing with you
They were using sci-fi as their inspiration and the hype for selling their stuff and never bothered to also check the downsides portrayed in the same literature. It’s a classic gonk move to be expected from corpo scum.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus
CEO two years later: Thank you for having me on this podcast. After the stock price plunged, the board gave me choice of being sued for criminal negligence or a transfer. So I was uploaded to the Torment Nexus for on site management. Who knew this place was so terrible?
No, they aren’t terrified. These people think they are demigods. I’ve seen it in plent of senior vice presidents even. It’s almost a job requirement at this point. Body guards make them feel even more important, and the company pays for it. Plus… that other tech bro has it, so I should too. That’s just the type of people we are dealing with.
I met Thiel once. He was every bit the cunt you’d think he was.
I met Thiel once.
Tell us more!
It’s in my post history somewhere. Long story short, I was driving a limo for a company that transported his VC firm’s people. I was assigned to drive his luggage from the Private Jet to his home. He got off and went with my colleague who was transporting him. I was standing next to the other driver and tried to shake his hand and introduce myself and he walked right past my outstretched hand and got in the car without a word. The only luggage I was asked to transport was a single backpack. So he bought a whole separate car to transport a fucking backpack that he couldn’t be seen carrying. I really wonder if there was something illegal in there, but who knows? I never peeked. When I arrived at the home, I followed Thiel and the other driver into the home, and got scolded by the staff (likely illegal immigrants btw) because I didn’t use the service entrance. At the time, he wasn’t known as a mask off fascist and I had visions of grandeur about parlaying this into a job at his company since I was fresh out of college. Instead I got a cold shoulder and a scolding. Fun times
Thanks! Sounds fully on character…
Why did you let him live? You had a chance!
Trust me, it’s crossed my mind.
TIL that someone tried to firebomb Sam Altman. Hero! ✊
BTW, such reactions are partly self-inflicted:
As the fight over AI data centers heats up, some polls have shown that AI is less popular with Americans than Immigration and Customs Enforcement. People fear that AI will result in mass layoffs, a further consolidation of wealth and power, or even a catastrophic apocalypse — outcomes that many leaders in the AI industry have issued warnings about.
In an effort to make AI more appealing, one should add.
…someone tried to firebomb Sam Altman.
That guy wasn’t trying to firebomb anything. He was following ChatGPT’s receipe for risotto. He can’t be blamed for simply following the instructions that he was given.
I’ve GOT to try that recipe.
Tech execs have had armed bodyguards for a long time. There was a scandal in Santa Clara county where the sheriff accepted bribes to issue concealed-carry certs for bodyguards.
I think there’s another place in Arizona or something, with shocking amounts of sherriffs. Off duty leo don’t haveany firearms restrictions at all.
I mean Arizona doesn’t have firearms restrictions at all. So.
Yeah, it’s more for travel. I doubt any have been in the state. So they can take guns on planes or to church idk
This has actually been happening since Luigi. Especially tech CEOs. The companies actually started paying for them.
I first ran into it in a class a couple years ago, the dude running was talking about how our group was the first group of normies he’d seen. It was all silicon Valley C staff before, every one had a dude standing directly behind them who wouldn’t talk. We’re only hearing about it now, but they’ve been creating a new personal guard industry since the united Healthcare ceo got it.
The companies actually started paying for them.
Why am I not surprised.
Hot take: I believe most CEOs are secretely excited by having their own, paid-for bodyguards now.
Huh that guy has armed guards. He must be important. Seems like a good target.
What’s the matter colonel Sanders, chicken?
They should be afraid. Luigi was just.
What is the answer when the wealthy murder countless people but hide it by doing it indirectly?
How are people supposed to make them stop?
Because the murder that the wealthy are doing needs to stop.
Everyone who is not them needs it to stop.
murder
You answered your own question.
When does it stop being murder and become social justice? One does not become a billionaire without exploiting others in some way unfairly
when you get enough people to agree to actually pack up their squeamishness concerning homicide to go through with calling it “manslaughter in self defence.” At that point it becomes one of three things depending on who leads the charge: A civil war if the sycophants to the system have enough firepower to empower “loyalists” to fight for them, A Revolt if the people elevate one of their own, (most likely a leader in some grassroots org) or a Revolution if there are enough people already in power to rally the troops so-to-speak. It can morph to one of others others at any point though. Of the three, Revolutions tend to be the fastest if conducted surgically with some sort of Coup-d’etat scenario.
Idk, I’m personally not too concerned with what we call it as long as it happens.
This is a well understood phenomenon well explored in many books with both nuanced and obvious answers, please ask your local librarian to direct you. In the mean time I’ve heard the new movie I Love Boosters is really good…
How “brilliant” do you have to be to think this is a better alternative than to stop doing things that make you think people are going to Luigi you?
Stopping doing those things would mean stopping doing capitalism, and these people would rather we all die than that.
Have to realize they got high on the “we’re the skilled, job creators” bullshit and truly believe it now.
Yeah but they would have to give up ruling the world and ruining your life for fun. And by spending a peanut negligible amount of money, they can still shield themselves from consequences? What would you do if you too were an overrich narcissist sadistic sociopath??
Armed bodyguards for billionaires are now pariahs. If you know one, isolate them, tell everyone who they are, and the boot they lick. More hated than the glassholes.
Or persuade them…
Remember what the Praetorian Guards would do when they demanded a pay raise and didn’t get one.
It would really suck to miss the CEO you were trying to hit and instead get one of the class traitors surrounding him =/
How would it suck? I mean, it may not give you a full point, but half a point is still something. Yeah, I’d like the full point, but I’ll take what I can with my terrible aiming skills.
🤭 well I would be pretty disappointed!
Yet they aren’t going to stop. If threats to their lives isn’t enough to slow them down, how much would it actually take for them to stop?
I think the answer is already in the question.
