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I looked [1] at all the prominent whistleblowers in the last ~50 years, and while some people have been seriously harassed and felt their lives were in danger,

by ddp26 2y ago

I looked [1] at all the prominent whistleblowers in the last ~50 years, and while some people have been seriously harassed and felt their lives were in danger, there's only a single case where someone was plausibly murdered by a private company. (Governments murder whistleblowers all the time.) Interestingly, it was in the 1970's and the woman blew the whistle for safety practices around the handling of plutonium! [1] https://twitter.com/dschwarz26/status/1786133630474977785 https://twitter.com/dschwarz26/status/1786133630474977785

sgt101 2y ago
There's a really good movie about it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood
cyounkins 2y ago
Do you mean that you did the research, or your AI product did the research? How are you assessing whether a death was plausibly murder? So strange that the one example you find is of a car crash (one of the most common ways people die!) and no citation that it was found to be murder.
squigz 2y ago
Don't misrepresent this - you used your own AI-powered product to do "research" > So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not. And given the details of Joshua Dean and John Barnett's death, it's simply much too plausible that this is a fluke of timing.
sdfhbdf 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time to tackle this research. I think you should mention that „I looked” was done with help of your AI project. That does not spark much confidence given current state of LLMs and their „research”. From your twitter article: > So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not.
jjulius 2y ago
>I looked [1]... Your AI looked at it, you didn't. I also have the hunch that your research was limited to US whistleblowers only, can you confirm?

by ddp26 2y ago

sgt101 2y ago

There's a really good movie about it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silkwood

cyounkins 2y ago

Do you mean that you did the research, or your AI product did the research? How are you assessing whether a death was plausibly murder? So strange that the one example you find is of a car crash (one of the most common ways people die!) and no citation that it was found to be murder.

squigz 2y ago

Don't misrepresent this - you used your own AI-powered product to do "research" > So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not. And given the details of Joshua Dean and John Barnett's death, it's simply much too plausible that this is a fluke of timing.

sdfhbdf 2y ago

Thanks for taking the time to tackle this research. I think you should mention that „I looked” was done with help of your AI project. That does not spark much confidence given current state of LLMs and their „research”. From your twitter article: > So across the ~50 or so prominent whistleblower cases against big co's that I researched with futuresearch.ai, retaliation is common, harassment is rare but does happen, but murder is not.

jjulius 2y ago

>I looked [1]... Your AI looked at it, you didn't. I also have the hunch that your research was limited to US whistleblowers only, can you confirm?