• @[email protected]
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    719 months ago

    Even ignoring the selfish elitist tone, this is like saying “things won’t be perfect, so why even try?” I hate defeatism, especially when it harms all of us.

    • @[email protected]
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      239 months ago

      Its probably not defeatism, just a billionaire tech sociopath trying to pump his investments in data centers.

  • AlexanderESmith
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    109 months ago

    So he’s saying “I don’t know how to manage that problem, so let’s create more”. Rich POS.

  • @[email protected]
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    159 months ago

    Plus Elon and Sergey and Jeff said they’re totally leaving room for me in the domed city while the space ark is being built.

  • @[email protected]
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    269 months ago

    Did he also say “And do not quote me” the same way he did when he told people to just steal what they want and hire lawyers to clean up the mess if they were successful?

      • vortic
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        69 months ago

        “It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission” was coined by Admiral Grace Hopper for use in a very different context. It is intended to mean that, when dealing with a beaurocracy like the military, it is often easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission.

        She certainly wouldn’t have intended for it to be used in the context of theft.

  • @[email protected]
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    1039 months ago

    Another billionaire tech founder demonstrating that these are exactly the people who need to be kept as far away as possible from positions of influence in our society.

  • @[email protected]
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    219 months ago

    Currently getting coffee, Viking Hippie says Eric Schmidt should go fuck himself with a rusty rail spike and keep his garbage opinions to himself.

  • xep
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    99 months ago

    “Because it’s a universal technology, and because it’s the arrival of an alien intelligence… we may make mistakes with respect to how it’s used, but I can assure you that we’re not going to get there through conservation.”

    I can’t understand what he’s saying, even though it’s in english. Did AI mean Alien Intelligence all this time?

  • @[email protected]
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    179 months ago

    And if AI decided that the fastest way to make a difference with climate change was to guillotine all the billionaires, he’d be on board? Because I can save all that spend and tell him right now that removing that number of super polluters who consistently lobby against environmental protections would make a noticeable impact.

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    9 months ago

    By his logic—we may as well just bury this guy alive, he’s just going to die anyways.

  • Illecors
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    109 months ago

    This is a sensationalized title. As always - nobody ever reads the bloody articles. What he actually said was

    we’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it.

    Is he that wrong? Do you think we actually are organized enough?

    • Phoenixz
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      179 months ago

      We are organized enough, the problem is that we keep getting sabotaged by a tiny few billionaires who want to buy heir next island. AI won’t help there anyway