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Small-scale imperial boomerang. You thought that you're building a privacy-destroying machine and this machine will never destroy _your_ privacy? At some point

Small-scale imperial boomerang. You thought that you're building a privacy-destroying machine and this machine will never destroy _your_ privacy? At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you're failing an extremely basic check.

gamerslexus 5mo ago
> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? Is there a reason you didn't go with > No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.
- rootlocus 5mo ago
  With all due respect to the guidelines that requires assuming good faith, this sounds like the beginning of a nirvana fallacy. You don't have to provide a perfect solution to point out something is wrong. People who don't care about the people they lead don't make good leaders. I'd rather have leaders who hurt others by accident than on purpose.
- ceejayoz 5mo ago
  > So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? "Here's your shit sandwich." "I don't want a shit sandwich!" I don't have to know what I do want to eat to decline the shit sandwich.
  - gamerslexus 5mo ago
    The shit sandwich is the sneaky idea that any "subsection of humanity" should dictate anything. Weirdly it's always a subsection that the speaker happens to be in or be friends with. I don't know about you but I know I don't want that shit sandwich.
    - ceejayoz 5mo ago
      Historically, that’s what tends to happen. When it does, harm reduction is wise.
- compass_copium 5mo ago
  The proletariat, of course.
- vortegne 5mo ago
  > Is there a reason you didn't go with No and you are being intentionally obtuse for some reason.
  - gamerslexus 5mo ago
    It was a rhetorical question because obviously there was a reason. The question is whether you didn't put much thought into what you write or it was a Freudian slip. "No" would be your reply in either case.
zelphirkalt 5mo ago
> At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you're failing an extremely basic check. I hope you are right, though it will still take a long time, if it ever happens. The base premises of most people is still something along the lines of: Has money -> must be successful -> is smarter than most -> is right and cannot be wrong. This kind of shortcircuited thinking is superbly annoying and harms us and the planet and every living being on it. I still remember clearly, when I explained to a Facebook fanperson, that FB is a criminal organization, just after they had to pay the highest fines ever for violating people's privacy. Despite the plain facts in front of them they chose not to believe me, because who am I, right? Just an IT person, who cannot possibly know shit, since I am not as rich and famous as Zucky the android.

gamerslexus 5mo ago

> This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. Interesting phrasing. So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? Is there a reason you didn't go with > No subsection of humanity should be dictating anything and yet these techbros always do.

rootlocus 5mo ago
With all due respect to the guidelines that requires assuming good faith, this sounds like the beginning of a nirvana fallacy. You don't have to provide a perfect solution to point out something is wrong. People who don't care about the people they lead don't make good leaders. I'd rather have leaders who hurt others by accident than on purpose.
ceejayoz 5mo ago
> So which subsection of humanity you think should be dictating something? "Here's your shit sandwich." "I don't want a shit sandwich!" I don't have to know what I do want to eat to decline the shit sandwich.
- gamerslexus 5mo ago
  The shit sandwich is the sneaky idea that any "subsection of humanity" should dictate anything. Weirdly it's always a subsection that the speaker happens to be in or be friends with. I don't know about you but I know I don't want that shit sandwich.
  - ceejayoz 5mo ago
    Historically, that’s what tends to happen. When it does, harm reduction is wise.
compass_copium 5mo ago
The proletariat, of course.
vortegne 5mo ago
> Is there a reason you didn't go with No and you are being intentionally obtuse for some reason.
- gamerslexus 5mo ago
  It was a rhetorical question because obviously there was a reason. The question is whether you didn't put much thought into what you write or it was a Freudian slip. "No" would be your reply in either case.

zelphirkalt 5mo ago

> At some point in the future, a lot of the SV techbros will be hopefully viewed as ghouls with no morals or ethics. This is not a subsection of humanity that should be dictating anything and yet they always do. If you complain about this and don't quit your job at Meta, you're failing an extremely basic check. I hope you are right, though it will still take a long time, if it ever happens. The base premises of most people is still something along the lines of: Has money -> must be successful -> is smarter than most -> is right and cannot be wrong. This kind of shortcircuited thinking is superbly annoying and harms us and the planet and every living being on it. I still remember clearly, when I explained to a Facebook fanperson, that FB is a criminal organization, just after they had to pay the highest fines ever for violating people's privacy. Despite the plain facts in front of them they chose not to believe me, because who am I, right? Just an IT person, who cannot possibly know shit, since I am not as rich and famous as Zucky the android.