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[–] HootinNHollerin 11 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Would be a shame if someone sunk his yacht

[–] Dainterhawk999 4 points 1 hour ago

Untangle him from the electricity grid

[–] phoneymouse 19 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] drivepiler 10 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 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] 28 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Etterra 10 points 3 hours ago

Not with you rich fuckers having that fucking attitude.

[–] Viking_Hippie 16 points 4 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] 104 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I'm...like super good at digging...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Username checks out

I can mark the area

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] AbidanYre 6 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

What shovel would you use to dig a 60 ft hole?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hitachi 1200 with a long stick lol.

Why the fuck are we going so deep?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So he can't crawl back up? It's October.

[–] Dainterhawk999 2 points 1 hour ago

ROFL... And also to assure he cannot be a zombie

[–] halfapage 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

"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?

[–] Dainterhawk999 1 points 1 hour ago

AI - Arsehole Intelligence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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] 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] PugJesus 32 points 8 hours ago

"Be evil" - Google Man

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago

Hopefully Google kills him off next.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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] 10 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 17 points 8 hours ago

Take a long walk off a short pier, Eric.

[–] RagingSnarkasm 21 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

It's easier to apologise than ask permission.

/s

[–] Vorticity 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

"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] 3 points 7 hours ago

Which was why I put the sarcasm "/s" at the end.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours 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?

[–] Hobbes_Dent 14 points 10 hours 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.