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I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
by motoxpro 9mo ago
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
- closewith 9mo ago> Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. A guy has woken up to the fact that he'll be remembered as a villian and is trying to whitewash his reputation.
- ggggffggggg 9mo agoI don’t know that the vast majority of Americans know who Eric Schmidt is. And unless they find little green men, no one will care about this project, so it won’t affect his (essentially nonexistent) reputation. It’s not unlike if you had a blog post about a gardening project in your backyard. Perhaps interesting to gardeners, but approximately no one cares. Low effort cynicism.
- bongodongobob 9mo ago[dead]
- BigTTYGothGF 9mo agoIt worked for Alfred Nobel.
- dlevine 9mo agoIt seems to have worked for Bill Gates as well. He definitely did some not so nice things when starting and running MS - I think it unfortunately goes with the territory of running a successful company at scale. But subsequently he has become more know for his philanthropy.
- melling 9mo agoI forget why he’s a villain. Did he do something at Google? He’s sort of a lesser known figure to me.
- mikeyouse 9mo agoHe was responsible for a bunch of the anticompetitive hiring agreements with Jobs at Apple and he’s a fairly well known lothario, but otherwise benign IMO considering his competition at that wealth level.
- Y-bar 9mo agoHe is also the man who said ”If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.” as if people are not being hunted for being LGBTQ even in the west, or persecutions of various kinds are a thing of the past, or spousal abuse doesn’t matter.
- uSoldering 9mo agoEric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
- BurningFrog 9mo agoFor the vast majority of non pacifists, that is not a bad thing.
- uSoldering 9mo agoFor the bottom 99.9% of wealthy people, it is not a good thing.
- youoy 9mo agoI would go even further: Not only the vast majority, but 100% of non pacifist like AI weapons.
- palmotea 9mo ago> For the vast majority of non pacifists, that is not a bad thing. Speak for yourself. I'm a non-pacifist, and I think "autonomous A.I. weapons" are a nightmare.
- oulipo2 9mo agoRight now he's mostly spending it on weapons and AI to control people
- DetectDefect 9mo ago> a guy made a bunch of money Through the systemic abuse and exploitation of countless individuals' privacy and autonomy. The context is everything.
- jacquesm 9mo agoThe 'how' matters.