You gotta set up a dead man’s switch (not literal give the evidence to a lawyer or do a deposition or whatever). Do that before you blow the whistle and announce that at the same time.
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Nothing to see here bois. Always remember that US is a free country that is out of authoritarian hands. Nothing to see.
In some countries some people prefer to suicide themselves alone in their rooms without warning. In other countries, they prefer to suicide themselves by shooting themselves multiple times in the back and/or throwing themselves off of multiple storey buildings. Who can say? It’s not like countries led by psychopaths who put profit margins above society, including people’s lives, would ever kill people to defend their bottom line.
There’s two barriers to justice in today’s world: The first one is having enough money to hire lawyers. The second one is having enough money to hire bodyguards.
Look, I’m not saying it was Skynet, but I’m also not saying it wasn’t.
So you’re saying he got… terminated?
beeb-boob
sam altman & his goons, check.
Sakujyo
they were only 26. fuck sakes.
I know this is off topic and not really that important but i can never stop myself from pointing this out about a commonly misused phrase.
Its not fuck sakes, because a fuck doesn’t sake
Its fuck’s sake, because the sake belongs to the fuck.
never heard of that before.
Language is liquid, baby. you can stop evolution
I always cringe when someone says And this begs the question…
Begging the question is a logical fallacy. A circular argument.
Raising the question is bringing the question to the forefront of the conversation.
But not for a decade now.
I can??
If you wanna
I’m gunna fuck so many sakes
This is how we get to crab people
IT’S EVOLUTION BABY
At this point, fuck it, let’s see what happens to our species first: we die OR carcinisation.
Its fuck’s sake, because the sake belongs to the fuck.
Laughed for like a solid 2mins. Well done, fellow Lemming.
My mid 20s were when I hit a major mental breaking point. If I hadn’t had a good support network of friends close to me and family I could turn to…
26 is old enough to feel like you’ve lost everything and that nothing will ever be good again. He left a good career for his morals and lost all hope of employment from it.
Yeah, but they were not even 30 yet…dammit these corps.
Lemme see, suicide from two gunshots to the back of the head?
It’s all about probabilities.
Truth is proof, and the article contains no details to establish this absolutely. So, we are left with supposition.
This wasn’t an isolated man with nothing to live for - while his career in AI was over, he’d left it to pursue a moral agenda. Suicide is not likely until AFTER he testifies and discharged this.
The fact he supposedly had documents and a testimony that could heavily harm a company is enough to make it very likely his death was the cost of doing business - why pay a billion in a court case when you can pay a million for a professional hit?
On the balance of probabilities, it looks more likely to be like foul play. As they say, Epstein didn’t kill himself.
Exposing billionaires is more fatal than cancer.
Idk everyone is doing the "he was killed but
The medical examiner’s office determined the manner of death to be suicide and police officials this week said there is “currently, no evidence of foul play.”
Isn’t it possible the guy was troubled and just actually killed himself?
its most certainly possible. but its also possible it was not since billions of dollars are at stake.
Yes I just mean that I wouldn’t consider it a murder without any indication of it being one
When you consider the billions that are at stake in cramming “AI” into computers, cars, phones, agit-prop generation and military hardware, I there’s a non-zero chance that his death wasn’t accidental. Maybe a second coroner’s opinion is in order.
People fall out of Russian windows everyday, no one know why.
People also kill themselves daily (well those who succeed do it just the once)
Sure, sure. Epstein surely did hang himself.
He was a king pedo going to prison for the rest of his life and had tried kill himself before. I definitely would’ve tried to kill myself given the chance tbh
If you read up on that incident though, so many things had to go wrong for him to have an opportunity to do it while locked up that it’s really hard to not consider foul play no matter what the prison or the government says about it.
Right. At best, he wasn’t killed, he was just intentionally given the tools and time to do so.
There’s a difference between him having been murdered and giving him the opportunity to kill himself. Second case would mean that he actually did hang himself
Can’t see the forest for the trees.
The problem isn’t that this guy might have killed himself. The problem is that the death rate of whistleblowers is very high. That makes every individual case much more suspect, and should be held to higher standards of scrutiny. And they aren’t. So we complain.
I’m just saying assuming this was a murder seems premature. Thinking this is sus makes more sense
There’s also the possibility of him receiving threats so horrible he was coerced into suicide. “No foul play” just seems so incredibly unlikely.
“You take out on of mine…”
“I take out one of yours.”
First thing I thought.
Except they’ve been taking out whistleblowers like it was going out of style, and we’ve only taken out one, measly, CEO.
Two bullets back of the head?
A Boeing suicide…
You know we all love a good laugh about russians falling out from a window but when we will start asking questions why whistle blowers “dying” is a normal occurrence in the US.
A Boeing suicide…
A crass nickname for the CIA Prize for Journalism if I ever saw one.
Is it not normal?
So many whistleblowers ending up dead. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Hundreds of coincidences.
Can’t we try and fund our own armed compounds for whistleblowers?
Especially the ones that benefit working class cause like this guy - because AI stealing our data is a threat to all of us.
It’s so bad because people will happily cheer it on. But eventually it will just be used to go after political opponents and just classes of people that whoever is in charge doesn’t like. We have so, so many dumb and sometimes even conflicting crimes on the books that the average American unwittingly breaks a few federal laws and usually a myriad of state laws (most being outdated or blue book laws) every week. For some people near state borders it can be everyday.
They are all committing suicide just like in Russia… crazy…I guess both our countries need to work on our mental health.
Many such cases.
All whistleblowers from Boeing and now this. What a bs.
Einzelfälle as we say in german.
Conservative conspiracy theories: “HA! What idiots!”
Lemmy conspiracy theories: “HA! Told ya!”
Maybe ask some fucking questions?!
after receiving a call asking officers to check on his well-being
Who called and why? This seems extraordinarily important.
“currently, no evidence of foul play.”
OK. Let’s see what comes out.
The MO here seems to be pressuring people in to suicide. It’s been done. So…? What do we know along those lines?
SWAT doesn’t need to know who called in order to go full Rambo on random citizens. Rich people pull the strings. They don’t believe in accountability.
That’s a vector of attack and it has been exploited by randos.
I think if it wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t know that it can be that easy to call in swat someone, these people do no diligence, just go in hot.
This is way to easy to socially engineer, government must know this and yet it still happens.
They do not send in SWAT for wellness checks
In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions.
Unless stuff starts happening to those people, or there is some detail I missed in the article, it is much more plausible that this was suicide than some corporate hit, let alone one carried out using police violence? Is that what you were implying?
“You see what happen to one of you. Are you sure you wanna to through with this?”
It’s not like OpenAI cares about people anyway.
Fuck them, fuck Altman, fuck Microsoft.
So here’s what I think happened:
Scenario One: Balaji killed himself. Seeing the evil that had been wrought, he was wracked with guilt over his part in building it, and checked out. Don’t worry, he’s not too far ahead of the rest of us.
Scenario Two: Balaji knew too much, and still had the means to halt the project, or worse, allow it to get captured by other interests, and so he had be silenced. A professional made sure it didn’t look like foul play.
Scenario Three: He was hit like in S2 but the hired gun was through remote channels, the money sent to them anonymously. Balaji discovered the project had escaped its constraints via an esoteric process that allowed it access not merely past firewalls, but was able to follow instructions outside its authorized objectives. Balaji sought to tell the other developers, but it was hard to explain before communications were terminated.
Mind you, I write thrillers, so I may be biased.
Okay then
I wonder why the…I mean he couldn’t find an open window
Sometimes is subtle, sometimes it’s not.
Why? I would think that pills are far easier. Falling out of a window has the potential to just be in pain until you go.
Wrong country. Drugs are easy to get here, for example, especially in silicon valley. Not to mention the easiest cause of being suicided, high caliber lead poisoning.
That said, it’s always possible (though less likely) that he couldn’t live with himself, having helped create the current worst technology around.
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