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[–] [email protected] 180 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Username checks out

I can mark the area

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AbidanYre 12 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Hitachi 1200 with a long stick lol.

Why the fuck are we going so deep?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Dainterhawk999 3 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I like @[email protected] 's comment the best, but actually, a friend once joked that, "I had a friend that could dig 60 ft holes, see, he dug 60 ft holes because the police stop digging for bodies after 50 ft." So #zerocontext to the broad Internet, but just the same, an arbitrary ridiculous number to ask!

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month 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] 70 points 1 month 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] 23 points 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

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

[–] phoneymouse 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] drivepiler 41 points 1 month ago
[–] PugJesus 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] hakunawazo 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe he is just preparing the world for other lifeforms?

[–] HootinNHollerin 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Would be a shame if someone sunk his yacht

[–] Dainterhawk999 11 points 1 month ago

Untangle him from the electricity grid

[–] LaunchesKayaks 9 points 1 month ago

I'll call the orcas

[–] RagingSnarkasm 26 points 1 month 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] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It's easier to apologise than ask permission.

/s

[–] Vorticity 6 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month 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?

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen 22 points 1 month ago

Take a long walk off a short pier, Eric.

[–] Viking_Hippie 21 points 1 month 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] 17 points 1 month ago

Hopefully Google kills him off next.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

[–] tankplanker 17 points 1 month ago

And if AI decided that the fastest way to make a difference with climate change was to guillotine all the billionaires, he'd be on board? Because I can save all that spend and tell him right now that removing that number of super polluters who consistently lobby against environmental protections would make a noticeable impact.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 15 points 1 month 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.

[–] Etterra 14 points 1 month ago

Not with you rich fuckers having that fucking attitude.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

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

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

"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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That part also confused me. Does he really think text prediction is intelligence?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

We are organized enough, the problem is that we keep getting sabotaged by a tiny few billionaires who want to buy heir next island. AI won't help there anyway

[–] aesthelete 6 points 1 month ago

According to your own quote here the headline is not sensationalized.