"Your need to get through the day has become a reason somebody else should stop protesting" This sums up why alot of relationships these days avoid certain topics. It is a friendship agreement that cannot be met.
This essay reminds of a scene in The Breakfast Club where the pretentious principal is complaining to the streetwise janitor that 'one day these kids will have to take care of me' and the janitor replies, 'dont count on it.'
This is not the first article I have read by you about the people you left behind in silicon valley. When I started the article I wondered why these people bother you so much. When I finished it I understood.
Ethics is the only thing that can make one person superior to another. Not money, not status, not beauty, not talent. Just ethics. And yeah, I DO think I’m better than Trumpers. Vastly flawed as I am, I’m fucking superior to every single one of them.
Those of us who are feeling morally wounded truly appreciate you for having the moral courage, and a powerful voice, to speak out. I'm loud, but have a very small audience : )
Your statement, Trump described the commitment as “morally binding” and promised “a tremendous self-policing aspect.” Rump talking to anyone about what could be morally binding is the most ludicrous thing anyone could imagine. SMH
Thinking of Peter Thiel's infamous comment that "evil can be good," I arrived at a framework for categorizing evil that feels right to me. It may be too simplistic, but here it is --
- A Good person is one who cares about and desires to mitigate the suffering of others.
- An Evil-A person is one who, while not enjoying the suffering on others, is willing to ignore it if it benefits him or her.
- An Evil-B person -- should we call him "super-evil"? -- enjoys the suffering of others and actively seeks to cause it.
It raises the question of who is more of a blight on society: the Evil-B person who is actually afflicted with a kind of psychosis, or the Evil-A person who is not so afflicted, but willing to enable the depredations of an Evil-B person who holds power.
I think it’s a shame that the people you used to work for decided to trade your (very obvious) talent for an ideology that allows them to earn more money at the expense of America as a country. I really thought that those in the tech sector were better strategists than that. Such a poor tactical decision.
In any case, bravo to you sticking with your principles. I took an early retirement from a civil federal job last year, leaving a lot of money on the table, so I wouldn’t have to answer to this abhorrent (and arguably illegitimate) administration. I will never regret that decision.
I think they really thought AI was going to hyperscale like the rest of their projects but they had no idea how real world inputs work. Now their project to find God has cost trillions with no way to recoup the losses and they also can't admit it. The country will go down in flames over a sunken cost fallacy.
Self policing tech bros is the equivalent of putting junkies in charge of the pharmacy. The lack of transparency in their businesses combined with Congress’s complete disinterest in regulating the sector creates the perfect storm of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”
It is worth remembering that the employees in the various dominant corporations can shut those companies down by just leaving their jobs. That would be a bloodless shift of power.And far easier to organize than 50 million average citizens.
I honestly have trouble seeing how intelligent people ever supported Trump.But now with so much more stake it is shocking.However the religious right wing believes Trump is the anointed one directed by God. Cyrus is their Old Testament justification.They are virtually unmovable.Silicon Valley has their own crazy religion that has a hold on many. So maybe it’s not surprising that there will never be a walk out by employees.
Nationwide boycotts could work but to get a coordinated agreement given the dependence so many people have on their products seems a high bar for America. (There is an org on line with almost 500,000 committed) Sure would be easier than trading bullets against the military.
I love this because I understand it 100% (grew up in old deep south family - many similarities to my relationship with the majority of the family and "friends" that I grew up with)
Christians and other minorities were burned at the stake, fed to lions, sawn in half and all they had to do to avoid this was re-cant. Intellectually lie to themselves. I'm no Christian, and these are simply examples. What they ask of you and I is no less than calling evil good and good evil.
Having a government filled with people with no principles is a disaster and deeply morally wounding for people that can't ignore it. Trump's been making shit up as he goes along and it kept working so he will never stop. He doesn't know shit about AI and will let them do what they like so long as the companies publicly kiss the ring and slip him a little cadh. That's just how America works now. The Con-manification of America is complete.
The 2024 election of Trump was a game changer. The idiots are in charge. (btw, the idiots seem to be in charge with the political opposition too. ) There is nothing you can do about it, especially when opposing the idiots has tremendous costs. Not just to the individual but to all the people who depend on that individual. If you are a silicon valley entrepreneur that can be a rather large group of dependents. So I will cut him/her some slack. Unless they are going full Elon Musk and then not so much.
"Your need to get through the day has become a reason somebody else should stop protesting" This sums up why alot of relationships these days avoid certain topics. It is a friendship agreement that cannot be met.
This essay reminds of a scene in The Breakfast Club where the pretentious principal is complaining to the streetwise janitor that 'one day these kids will have to take care of me' and the janitor replies, 'dont count on it.'
This is not the first article I have read by you about the people you left behind in silicon valley. When I started the article I wondered why these people bother you so much. When I finished it I understood.
Ethics is the only thing that can make one person superior to another. Not money, not status, not beauty, not talent. Just ethics. And yeah, I DO think I’m better than Trumpers. Vastly flawed as I am, I’m fucking superior to every single one of them.
Those of us who are feeling morally wounded truly appreciate you for having the moral courage, and a powerful voice, to speak out. I'm loud, but have a very small audience : )
Your statement, Trump described the commitment as “morally binding” and promised “a tremendous self-policing aspect.” Rump talking to anyone about what could be morally binding is the most ludicrous thing anyone could imagine. SMH
Thinking of Peter Thiel's infamous comment that "evil can be good," I arrived at a framework for categorizing evil that feels right to me. It may be too simplistic, but here it is --
- A Good person is one who cares about and desires to mitigate the suffering of others.
- An Evil-A person is one who, while not enjoying the suffering on others, is willing to ignore it if it benefits him or her.
- An Evil-B person -- should we call him "super-evil"? -- enjoys the suffering of others and actively seeks to cause it.
It raises the question of who is more of a blight on society: the Evil-B person who is actually afflicted with a kind of psychosis, or the Evil-A person who is not so afflicted, but willing to enable the depredations of an Evil-B person who holds power.
I would go with Evil-A.
I think it’s a shame that the people you used to work for decided to trade your (very obvious) talent for an ideology that allows them to earn more money at the expense of America as a country. I really thought that those in the tech sector were better strategists than that. Such a poor tactical decision.
In any case, bravo to you sticking with your principles. I took an early retirement from a civil federal job last year, leaving a lot of money on the table, so I wouldn’t have to answer to this abhorrent (and arguably illegitimate) administration. I will never regret that decision.
I think they really thought AI was going to hyperscale like the rest of their projects but they had no idea how real world inputs work. Now their project to find God has cost trillions with no way to recoup the losses and they also can't admit it. The country will go down in flames over a sunken cost fallacy.
Self policing tech bros is the equivalent of putting junkies in charge of the pharmacy. The lack of transparency in their businesses combined with Congress’s complete disinterest in regulating the sector creates the perfect storm of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”
It is worth remembering that the employees in the various dominant corporations can shut those companies down by just leaving their jobs. That would be a bloodless shift of power.And far easier to organize than 50 million average citizens.
I honestly have trouble seeing how intelligent people ever supported Trump.But now with so much more stake it is shocking.However the religious right wing believes Trump is the anointed one directed by God. Cyrus is their Old Testament justification.They are virtually unmovable.Silicon Valley has their own crazy religion that has a hold on many. So maybe it’s not surprising that there will never be a walk out by employees.
Nationwide boycotts could work but to get a coordinated agreement given the dependence so many people have on their products seems a high bar for America. (There is an org on line with almost 500,000 committed) Sure would be easier than trading bullets against the military.
Lost my husband. And yes I am morally “superior” though he accused me of not being a godly woman as he left.
I love this because I understand it 100% (grew up in old deep south family - many similarities to my relationship with the majority of the family and "friends" that I grew up with)
The AI -> SI renaming will be about as successful as Musk's Twitter -> X renaming.
Trying to rewrite literally decades of science fiction in the cultural memory with a law is... I don't even know what adjective to use...
What they are asking of you is no small thing.
Christians and other minorities were burned at the stake, fed to lions, sawn in half and all they had to do to avoid this was re-cant. Intellectually lie to themselves. I'm no Christian, and these are simply examples. What they ask of you and I is no less than calling evil good and good evil.
It IS that clear.
Having a government filled with people with no principles is a disaster and deeply morally wounding for people that can't ignore it. Trump's been making shit up as he goes along and it kept working so he will never stop. He doesn't know shit about AI and will let them do what they like so long as the companies publicly kiss the ring and slip him a little cadh. That's just how America works now. The Con-manification of America is complete.
The 2024 election of Trump was a game changer. The idiots are in charge. (btw, the idiots seem to be in charge with the political opposition too. ) There is nothing you can do about it, especially when opposing the idiots has tremendous costs. Not just to the individual but to all the people who depend on that individual. If you are a silicon valley entrepreneur that can be a rather large group of dependents. So I will cut him/her some slack. Unless they are going full Elon Musk and then not so much.