• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don’t want to click through.

    And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.

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      You could put them in a sack and hit the sack with a stick. You’d never hit the wrong guy.

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        I like this idea much better than picking one of them as the worst person in tech for 2023. Can we do the stick beating instead?

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          11 months ago

          But we definitely need to have Zuck in there too. And maybe Thiel, as a special guest.

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      11 months ago

      No matter who wins we all lose. That’s kind of the point whenever these guys turn up.

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      Theil wants a techno libertarian oligarchy with no regulations ala Blade Runner.

      Musk wants the rich to escape to Mars while destroying earth and dooming the poor’s.

      Bezos wants to send the poor’s into space along with heavy industry and turn earth into a rich person paradise ala Black Mirror “Fifteen Million Merits”.

      Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that’s what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He’s also a prepper which means he’s a selfish cunt.

      If I had to pick just one it would be Theil. I think the man is insidious while the rest are more in your face.

      Ranked choice would be Theil, Musk, Bezos then Altman.

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        I love your descriptions for all of them. If you have some free time would you mind writing it for everyone in the brackets?

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      To make things slightly easier it’s Musk v Thiel and Bezos v Altman.

      In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.

      In the second matchup I would pick Bezos for the larger impact he has had on the world.

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        I’m with you on the second, but I would have a really hard time with the first because Musk is more overtly a piece of shit, but Thiel has had so much influence over the years, including elevating Elon Musk to the position where he is today. I guess if it’s the worst of 2023 and we’re restricting it solely to what we know they’ve said and done in 2023, it would be Musk. But I think overall, it is probably Thiel just because there wouldn’t be an Elon Musk anyone had heard about without Peter Thiel.

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        In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.

        But Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil’s overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.

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        This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.

        By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.

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        He’s not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.

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          Also some view ChatGPT (and the other “AIs”) as massive plagiarism machines.

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            AI or not, plagiarism appears to happen a lot. AI just makes it a little easier than it was before.