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[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 249 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 157 points 1 week ago (13 children)

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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[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 111 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Torment_Nexus

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 32 points 1 week ago

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?

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I met Thiel once. He was every bit the cunt you'd think he was.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

...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.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] AWistfulNihilist@lemmy.world 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago

What's the matter colonel Sanders, chicken?

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] IamBlank@lemmy.zip 50 points 1 week ago (20 children)

They should be afraid. Luigi was just.

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[–] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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?

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Stopping doing those things would mean stopping doing capitalism, and these people would rather we all die than that.

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 41 points 1 week ago

Remember what the Praetorian Guards would do when they demanded a pay raise and didn't get one.

[–] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] Winning@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

I think the answer is already in the question.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It would really suck to miss the CEO you were trying to hit and instead get one of the class traitors surrounding him =/

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[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I mean killing them off works look at Luigi. That was just one of them

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why not just be like MUSK, produce children to use as human meat shield.

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[–] steveLeo@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They better build their walls high

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

And waterproof. Makes it easier to flood.

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[–] DigDoug@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everybody hates me. Am I really so out of touch?

No. It's the ~~children~~ general populace who are wrong.

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[–] switcheroo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Good. Parasites should be afraid.

(Not a call for violence. Just saying people who destroy lives should live in fear.)

Good. Parasites should be afraid.

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[–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hey Execs, do you think maybe if you need to hide behind armed security, that you might just be going down the wrong path by doing evil shit? Also armed guards won't help you if you make the public mad enough and destroy enough lives to where it doesn't matter if they live or not to them. Just a thought

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[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

Modern day mobsters with thugs.

[–] Kintarian@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You could, I don’t know, just spit-balling here, stop being a greedy, lying, insufferable prick.

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago
[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Tech Execs only have to be unlucky once.

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Why do people go after the execs when the board of directors is the ones making the shitty decisions?

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