The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined Suchir Balaji's death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.
  • Sigilos@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    651·
    13 hours ago
    The San Francisco medical examiner's office determined his death to be suicide and police found no evidence of foul play.

    Does anyone else find it statistically significant how often whistle blowers commit suicide within a few days of releasing information or making a statement?

    • cestvrai@lemm.eeEnglish
      43·
      13 hours ago

      One minute they’re all like “if I die it’s definitely not suicide” and the next they are changing their mind and going through with it…

    • john89@lemmy.caEnglish
      630·
      12 hours ago

      Yes, but it’s important to not immediately assume that it’s because they’ve been killed.

      I’d wager a statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars looking to get recognition. When their lie catches up with them, they realize they’ve lost the one thing they had going for them and decide to end it all.

      In the digital age where information can be shared so freely and so easily, there’s not really an excuse for whistleblowers to be like “wait until THIS date” before revealing their information.

      • Hegar@fedia.io
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        7 hours ago

        statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars … When their lie catches up with them … decide to end it all"

        This is a very unlikely situation.

        These stories of nefarious liars abusing poor defenseless corporations would be publicized widely if true. We’d have prominent, well known examples.

        This needs people who think the threats and reputational damage of being a whistleblower are worth it for the ‘recognition’, who are smart enough to construct a believable sounding claim but not smart enough to see the inevitable consequences. That specific kind of person is going to be much rarer than people who work for a legitimately shitty company and don’t like it.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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        7 hours ago

        I’d wager a statistically significant amount of whistleblowers are actually just liars looking to get recognition.

        So do you have some research stating that or is it just a sort of feeling?

        Because that’s an incredibly wild allegation to be making, impeaching someone’s veracity, especially after a fatality, should absolutely come with some kind of evidence.

  • SplashJackson@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    15 hours ago

    I guess the apartment windows didn’t open otherwise he would have been thrown himself out of it, I’m sure

  • shatterling@lemm.eeEnglish
    231·
    18 hours ago

    Careful what you say on threads such as these, OpenAIs Basilisk might be reading

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    331·
    1 day ago

    Well this will certainly be more of a thing.

    Maybe next time they can fall out of a balcony they didn’t actually have to make it SUPER OBVIOUS what just happened.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      19 hours ago

      Need to make sure they only stay in first floor locations or places without windows. Whistle blowers gonna be pushed out of windows just like Daddy Vladdy likes.

    • embed_me@programming.devEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I would refrain from saying he took his life while worried about his career.

      He most likely wasn’t in a good mental state and needed support from his friends and family. Healthy people can tolerate a lot more than career death.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Even if you are completely closed of from AI as a profession, there are still way more possibilities, even in the same general field(computer science).

      Even then you could go through a career change. He looks like hes in his 20s or 30s which isnt late at all.