Comment by motoxpro
3 days ago
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
3 days ago
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
> a guy made a bunch of money
Through the systemic abuse and exploitation of countless individuals' privacy and autonomy. The context is everything.
The 'how' matters.
Right now he's mostly spending it on weapons and AI to control people
> Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants.
A guy has woken up to the fact that he'll be remembered as a villian and is trying to whitewash his reputation.
I don’t know that the vast majority of Americans know who Eric Schmidt is. And unless they find little green men, no one will care about this project, so it won’t affect his (essentially nonexistent) reputation.
It’s not unlike if you had a blog post about a gardening project in your backyard. Perhaps interesting to gardeners, but approximately no one cares.
Low effort cynicism.
I forget why he’s a villain. Did he do something at Google?
He’s sort of a lesser known figure to me.
Eric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
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He was responsible for a bunch of the anticompetitive hiring agreements with Jobs at Apple and he’s a fairly well known lothario, but otherwise benign IMO considering his competition at that wealth level.
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It worked for Alfred Nobel.
It seems to have worked for Bill Gates as well. He definitely did some not so nice things when starting and running MS - I think it unfortunately goes with the territory of running a successful company at scale. But subsequently he has become more know for his philanthropy.
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