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by ath3nd 258 days ago
There is also a great article about the same subject from Tom Renner: https://tomrenner.com/posts/llm-inevitabilism/

Sam, Elon, Zuck are conmen, husks of people, empty inside and not knowing what to do with themselves but hoard money. In their pointless quest to become the proverbial dragon on a mountain of gold, they are trying to control, bully and manipulate the world to their vision of how it should be.

We know how this goes:

- Facebook contributed to multiple atrocities and genocides, actively promoted warlords and dictators

- Twitter after being acquired from Musk is just an echo chamber of fascism and white supremacy and misinformation

- Sam...is just..a slimy dude. He made a coup in something that was supposed to be free and open, and made it ugly and about money and profits, riding on the work of idealists and forgetting all his pledges and manifestos just in the pursuit of money

Those people rising to power and prominence is not inevitable. If only they had childhood validation, I think they might have turned out to be normal people and done less harm to the world. Sadly, they were probably neglected as children or dropped on their head repeatedly. I blame the parents.

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Thanks for the link to Tom Renner's article. I've read it and agree with it.

I wrote this essay to convince "unbelievers" that's why I tried to be as rigorous as I could

Musk has said a lot about getting badly bullied at school, those bullies were probably bullied at home as well :/