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1. mppm+821[view] [source] 2025-01-22 06:56:32
>>tedsan+(OP)
Apart from my general queasiness about the whole AGI scaling business and the power concentration that comes with it, these are the exact four people/entities that I would not want to be at the tip of said power concentration.
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2. A4ET8a+gm1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 10:05:52
>>mppm+821
Just Ellison alone brings unwelcome feeling of having Oracle craziness forced down our collective throats, but I share your concern about the unholy alliance generated in front of us.
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3. DebtDe+0B1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 12:27:03
>>A4ET8a+gm1
My immediate reaction to the announcement was one of these is not like the others. OpenAI, a couple of big investment funds, Microsoft, Nvidia, and...............Oracle?
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4. freeho+HD1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 12:44:08
>>DebtDe+0B1
There is a certain reason that last weeks everybody and their grandma is simping for Trump. Nobody would want to be on his bad side right now. Moreover, we hear here and there that Trump "keeps his promises". A lot of the promises we do not know about and we may never will. These people did not spend money supporting his campaign for nothing. In other places and eras this would have been called corruption, now it is called "keeping his promises".
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5. miki12+aL1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 13:38:24
>>freeho+HD1
> There is a certain reason that last weeks everybody and their grandma is simping for Trump. Nobody would want to be on his bad side

It's worth keeping in mind how extremely unfriendly to tech the last admin was. At this point, it's basically proven in court that emails of the form "please deboost person x or else" were send, and there's probably plenty more we don't know about.

Combine that with the troubles in Europe which Biden's administration was extremely unwilling to help with, the obstacles thrown in the way of major energy buildouts, which are needed for AI... one would have to be stupid to be a tech CEO and not simp for Trump.

Tech has been extremely Democratic for many years. The Democrats have utterly alienated tech, and now they reap the consequences.

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6. mschus+yM1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 13:44:53
>>miki12+aL1
> Tech has been extremely Democratic for many years. The Democrats have utterly alienated tech, and now they reap the consequences.

Well, on the other side it can be said that Big Tech wasn't really on the side of democracy (note: democracy, not the Democrat Party) itself, and it hasn't been for years - at the very least ever since Cambridge Analytica was discovered. The "big tech" sector has only looked at profit margins, clicks, eyeballs and other KPIs while completely neglecting its own responsibility towards its host, and it got treated as the danger it posed by the Biden administration and Europe alike.

As for the cryptocoin world that has also been campaigning for the 45th: they are an even worse cancer on the world. Nothing but a gigantic waste of resources (remember the prices of GPUs, HDDs and RAM going through the roof, coal power plants being reactivated?), rug pulls and other scams.

The current shift towards the far-right is just the final masks falling off. Tech has rather (openly) supported the 45th than to learn from the chaos it has brought upon the world and make at least a paper effort to be held accountable.

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7. cosmic+tU1[view] [source] 2025-01-22 14:33:05
>>mschus+yM1
Yes, big tech was the kid caught in the corner cleaning out the cookie jar and threw a tantrum when one parent moved the jar out of reach as punishment in effort to help the industry learn self-control. Now the other parent has come home and has not only returned the cookie jar to the kid but pledged to bring them packs of cookies by the shipping container to gorge on in exchange for favors.
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