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  • @[email protected]
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    753 months ago

    Hey, remember when you guys lined up to suck his dick when the board tried to keep OpenAI working for the good of humanity instead of the oligarchy?

      • @[email protected]
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        253 months ago

        People have grown up reading comic books and watching movies about generous billionaire superhero saviors. They want to believe that exists because it’s what they’ve been taught justice looks like.

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            33 months ago

            And yet the problem was never that he was a billionaire, and Lexcorp was never portrayed as anything but an industrial powerhouse whose existence was ultimately good.

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              Lexcorp was never portrayed as anything but an industrial powerhouse whose existence was ultimately good.

              The largest international arms dealing firm that did Captain Planet Villain tier pollution, corruption, and financial scams was “ultimately good”?

              Didn’t Lexcorp literally clone an army of Doomsdays?

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                Obviously it’s going to be the “villain” as Lex’s plaything but it’s also on that “job creator” cope.

                https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/LexCorp

                Employs literally 2/3 of Metropolis’s population lol. Lex even handed it over Superman at one point and made him the CEO because he was on a “Earth needs Superman” arc while obviously CEOs are the real heroes and such, and what are you going to do, Superman? Unemploy a supermajority of Metropolis? It NEEDS Lexcorp, etc etc.

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                  23 months ago

                  “How will we get by without all our financialized monopolies?!”

                  Idk, bro. Just keep doing what you’re doing, minus the extraordinary rents to your bloated bourgeois landlords, maybe?

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            33 months ago

            I feel like Luthor was a better counterexample for this before the model for his billionaire redesign was elected President of the USA.

            Even so, Luthor hasn’t had quite the same volume of appearances as Iron Man, Batman, Captain America and the other rich superhero tropes.

            • @Big_Boss_77
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              13 months ago

              I’m not super hip on comics… but Grandpa Popsicle was rich?

        • Alex
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          13 months ago

          They do exist they just prefer to be anonymous in their altruism so nobody hears about them.

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              13 months ago

              Actually, this is part of Jewish society. Essentially, one is not supposed to do it for glory. I suspect that part of that is to avoid getting letters pleading for more money from those who they have helped or who knows that they helped someone. A lot of charities share/sell donor lists.

    • @[email protected]
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      313 months ago

      Yeah, that was a strange moment. Those in the company being for Altman, I can understand. They expected big returns of investment from keeping him around. But the outsiders on the internet cheering him on? Felt like Elon Musk in the beginning again. And yes I also fell for his engineer persona in the beginning. But I learned from that.

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          Musk the Fuck doesn’t even have an engineering degree and was never accepted into any PhD program. Lying piece of shit copies some code out of an early 80’s magazine and thinks he is a programmer and got his degree after a donation from daddy.

          I repeatedly see loser here, and other places online, defend his dipshit ass. People keep falling for rich tech bro bullshit and still do.

          • @[email protected]
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            63 months ago

            I guess that’s just the reality of living in a world where money is equated with success and success is equated with talent.

      • @[email protected]
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        53 months ago

        What was so obvious in that instance was the board members trying to push him out were calling out the lack of openness OpenAI was trending towards. They were literally calling him out for not upholding the vision of why the company was founded.

        All the engineers clearly saw their payday slipping away and revolted for that reason. Can’t say I blame them, but it was a scenario where the board was actually doing the right thing and everyone turned on them for profit.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      I don’t remember this at all.

      AI has looked like a scam since the Metaverse days when Facebook realized it couldn’t push those shitty headsets on people and decided to pivot.