• Illecors
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    220 minutes 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?

  • @phoneymouse
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    275 hours ago

    These Google guys are such a disappointment. They could’ve done something inspirational, but what have they done?

  • @[email protected]
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    125 hours ago

    So much for don’t be evil.

    At least as the planet burns, it will be because we now have AI that tells us to superglue our pizza together or jump off the Golden Gate Bridge. Whatever would we do without it?

  • @[email protected]
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    356 hours ago

    Be honest, Eric. “We should go all in on harmful bullshit because I make money from it.”

  • @Etterra
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    126 hours ago

    Not with you rich fuckers having that fucking attitude.

  • @[email protected]
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    10 hours ago

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

  • @Viking_Hippie
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    177 hours 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.

  • @[email protected]
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    7711 hours 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.

  • @PugJesus
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    3710 hours ago

    “Be evil” - Google Man

  • @halfapage
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    “I can stab you for my amusement, you are going to die some day anyway.”

    Let AI solve climate change, HOW? Current “AI” aren’t problem solvers. Or am I missing something?

    • @[email protected]
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      Current “AI” isn’t really AI, more like autocorrect on steroids. “Real” AI will have the ability to program itself. Once we flip the switch on it’ll move so fast in complex, inhuman ways that we’ll never even be able to truly understand it.

  • @[email protected]
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    5211 hours 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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      147 hours ago

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

  • @RagingSnarkasm
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    2111 hours 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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        410 hours 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.