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Sutskever’s coup went about as well as Prigozhin‘s coup.

CamperBob2 3y ago
Yep. He's done. When you strike at the king, you must kill him. At a minimum it's going to be awkward in the men's room for a while.
- kelsey9876543 3y ago
  This is the level of national security or foreign policy disaster. If you think anyone that was involved will ever work in tech again pass me whatever you're smoking
  - erikpukinskis 3y ago
    I’m a bit ignorant of this… what’s the national security risk?
  - kzrdude 3y ago
    There are tons of controversial people in tech, they'll find a place somewhere.
    - CamperBob2 3y ago
      Imagine what China would pay them to emigrate.
jacquesm 3y ago
I think Prigozhin's coup went slightly worse for Prigozhin.
- kragen 3y ago
  too early to tell, but likely it would be counterproductive to actually assassinate sutskever anytime in the next year
  - jacquesm 3y ago
    It would be a reasonably long list of suspects, even so this isn't such a case.
    - kragen 3y ago
      probably not, but i'm not a fly on the wall in those meetings either. things are gonna get pretty weird over the next year
      - jacquesm 3y ago
        They are plenty weird enough for my taste already. Seriously. What an incredibly turbulent 15 years it has been. So far. And it may well get a lot more turbulent still.
        kragen 3y ago
        oh yeah. remember what i wrote about this 7 years ago https://dercuano.github.io/notes/wwiii-genesis.html https://dercuano.github.io/notes/wwiii-genesis.html and that was before agi, spacex, the unfolding of brexit, the us huawei sanctions, or the solar energy explosion not that those are necessarily bad in all ways but they sure do contribute to unpredictability
        jacquesm 3y ago
        COVID, Ukraine, financial crisis, climate...
        kragen 3y ago
        the climate thing is pretty important but at this point manageable financial crises come and go; the one 15 years ago was interesting but not, as it turned out, a second great depression ukraine was one of the major topics of the note i linked, though not explicitly mentioned covid i'm not sure about. you would expect 6.98 million confirmed deaths (and several times that many total deaths) to have a cultural impact like aids or the holocaust, but if it has, i am not sure exactly what that impact is. i don't even see people wearing face masks on the bus when they have a cold, which is sort of the minimum i was hoping for

Yep. He's done. When you strike at the king, you must kill him. At a minimum it's going to be awkward in the men's room for a while.

kelsey9876543 3y ago
This is the level of national security or foreign policy disaster. If you think anyone that was involved will ever work in tech again pass me whatever you're smoking
- erikpukinskis 3y ago
  I’m a bit ignorant of this… what’s the national security risk?
- kzrdude 3y ago
  There are tons of controversial people in tech, they'll find a place somewhere.
  - CamperBob2 3y ago
    Imagine what China would pay them to emigrate.

jacquesm 3y ago

I think Prigozhin's coup went slightly worse for Prigozhin.

kragen 3y ago
too early to tell, but likely it would be counterproductive to actually assassinate sutskever anytime in the next year
- jacquesm 3y ago
  It would be a reasonably long list of suspects, even so this isn't such a case.
  - kragen 3y ago
    probably not, but i'm not a fly on the wall in those meetings either. things are gonna get pretty weird over the next year
    - jacquesm 3y ago
      They are plenty weird enough for my taste already. Seriously. What an incredibly turbulent 15 years it has been. So far. And it may well get a lot more turbulent still.
      - kragen 3y ago
        oh yeah. remember what i wrote about this 7 years ago https://dercuano.github.io/notes/wwiii-genesis.html https://dercuano.github.io/notes/wwiii-genesis.html and that was before agi, spacex, the unfolding of brexit, the us huawei sanctions, or the solar energy explosion not that those are necessarily bad in all ways but they sure do contribute to unpredictability
        jacquesm 3y ago
        COVID, Ukraine, financial crisis, climate...
        kragen 3y ago
        the climate thing is pretty important but at this point manageable financial crises come and go; the one 15 years ago was interesting but not, as it turned out, a second great depression ukraine was one of the major topics of the note i linked, though not explicitly mentioned covid i'm not sure about. you would expect 6.98 million confirmed deaths (and several times that many total deaths) to have a cultural impact like aids or the holocaust, but if it has, i am not sure exactly what that impact is. i don't even see people wearing face masks on the bus when they have a cold, which is sort of the minimum i was hoping for