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
If the financial markets were doing that then AI companies and infrastructure would falter right now. Its not
“The economy’s going great! Just look at how much money everyone has! See those gas prices! See that water? Its poisoned with industrial runoff and they STILL pay for it! They must have SO MUCH MONEY !!!”
It’s not really that clear cut.
The financial markets have a tendancy to keep propping up bullshit until said bullshit explodes harder than it was ever supposed to. See 2008
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
What’s the matter colonel Sanders, chicken?
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 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.
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…
They should be afraid. Luigi was just.
Wrong, murder and violence isn’t the answer in a democracy. They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone.
The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike. These fuckwits are most certainly tyrants per my cultures definition using bribery, intimidation, and legal bullfuckery to build their stupid AI data centers. Oh also quite a few of them want to set up a tachno fascist dictatorship. So in summary hang em high and let the ravens feast apon their gallow corpses.
“They only give compute services to the nazis, it’s not like they’re the ones dropping bombs on schools just becuase they designed the clanker that told them to”
https://izri.online/blog/pentagon-grok-military-strikes-iran-june-2026
Where is this democracy you speak of? Did you vote for your tax dollars to pay these companies to kill innocent kids for the crime of being born into the worst apartheid we’ve seen since the 40s?
They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone.
It requires a certain type of ignorance to not see how evil the likes of peter Thiel are.
In addition to how his products are literally killing children: He’s basically part of MAGA, actively destroying the USA. He has expressed horrid views over time, not the worst of which is that he doesn’t believe in democracy. (edit: and he has both the will and the money to put his views into practice)
So yeah, removing people like him is the answer, if we want to get back to a functioning State of Law. And since the US government is in cahoots with them, there’s not going to be a just trial. So what else to do?
The irony of “restoring a functioning state of law” by going self-judicial and killing people. The mental gymnasics are insane.
History proves me right. Germany after WW2 is one example.
Anyhow, I phrased it as a question and I’d prefer if we work on an answer to that. Elsewise it might seem like you don’t believe that the USA’s current regime is wrong.
Wrong. Read the Epstein files.
This argument is obviously in bad faith. I’m for prosecuting criminals and rapists in the Epstein files. But generalizing all Tech CEOs to rape kids is bit of a stretch
When its over half of them, and the other half are literal natzis from south Africa or have some other kind of weird racist origin I think its pretty safe to say all of them.
Not to mention ALL of the major tech and ai companies have installed someone from unit 8200.
Its not in bad faith when the list of “good” tech ceos is under a handful.
But we’re in a plutocracy, not a democracy.
Violence is a useful tool. What Luigi did was just. When reason, negotiation, a plea for empathy or sympathy fails and exploitation continues, violence is the answer.
Sure but do we live in a true democracy, when the law protects the elite and not the many?
A functional democracy sounds like a cool idea. But we don’t have one. So if we can’t have it I guess I will laugh when billionaires die instead.
isnt a part of the epstein files basically about skinning children to the bone
No. But there’s a conspiracy tale claiming Dems are pedovores, and I’m sure believers of that see it in the Epstein files too.
Just a re-hashing of the age-old blood libel conspiracy narrative.
I doubt it’s possible to reach a democracy without violence.
The state has a monopoly on violence which it should use within accordance to law to uphold the law and democracy. Self-justice is a huge problem in that regard
The LLMS convinced maybe 15+ kids to kill themselves. Claude told the us goverment to bomb a kids school.
I mean you’re kind of splitting hairs on what kind of child murder the LLMs are enabling.
I can use a hammer to kill a person. A suicidal person can buy a rope to hang themselves. Of course an AI is different in that it almost seems conscious and like its talking to you when its not. I’m not a lawyer or the company in question. But I don’t think this warrants banning the entire technology
First show me where I said we should ban them.
Second:
If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn’t locked away in a gun safe unloaded.
LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don’t want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that’s impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product.
Wrong, murder and violence isn’t the answer in a democracy.
You think you’re in a democracy?
Cute…
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??
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!
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…
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.
