[QuadmasterXLII]

isn’t that how we got here though? Everyone in silicon valley was so busy making sure they were open minded, steelmanning, and not treating politics like a sport that no one in the silicon valley halls of power pointed out that the emperor has no clothes and now we have a (sorry woke police) shrieking retard president leading us through the singularity.

[bluefirebrand]

It definitely seems like having Trump in power suits the rich and powerful tech lobby just fine, that's for sure

[QuadmasterXLII]

Thats’s the trump pitch, that supporting him is defecting in a prisoners dilemma, but from where I stand it looks like he’a shrinking the pie by damaging America through ineptitude faster than he’s increasing the fraction of the pie available to all but his closest cronies.

[inigyou]

Well that's the prisoner's dilemma. No matter whether you defect or not, the other guy still does.

[QuadmasterXLII]

(((4,4), (0, -10)) ((-10, 0), (-20, -20)))

if you want to sell a product that looks like defect but sucks for everyone, lying and saying “its a prisoners dilemma, don’t be a sucker” is a remarkably effective technique.

Of course you need explosive reactive armor on your car! imagine if you get in a crash and the other bastard has it and you don’t

[worik]

That is the strangest thing, to me

[lesuorac]

No?

Maybe you were busy being open minded and etc.

But uh rest of Silicon Valley was pretty openly rooting for Trump to win 2024.

The emperor having no clothes is actually really useful when you can interact with the emperor. You want them then to be mallable like Tim Cook giving Trump a golden statue so they're immune to tariffs that their competitors have to pay.

[johnnyanmac]

I wonder if this whole stunt still ended up costing them more than a boring 2025 year, though. I'm sure they wanted the soft power of just speaking money with an openly corrupt president, but they never anticipated the hassle the president would be without all the safeguards in place during term 1.

I'm sure people like David Ellison made off like a bandit, being able to push mergers (or at least, try to push mergeers) that would have been stopped early under any other administration. I don't think Apple was doing any blatantly bold moves like that, though.