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[–] IamBlank@lemmy.zip 51 points 2 months ago (21 children) They should be afraid. Luigi was just. permalink fedilink source hideshow 21 child comments replies: [+] timestatic@feddit.org -30 points 2 months ago (20 children) Wrong, murder and violence isn't the answer in a democracy. They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 20 child comments replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children) They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone. It requires a certain type of ignorance to not see how evil the likes of peter Thiel are. In addition to how his products are literally killing children: He's basically part of MAGA, actively destroying the USA. He has expressed horrid views over time, not the worst of which is that he doesn't believe in democracy. (edit: and he has both the will and the money to put his views into practice) So yeah, removing people like him is the answer, if we want to get back to a functioning State of Law. And since the US government is in cahoots with them, there's not going to be a just trial. So what else to do? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org -2 points 2 months ago (1 child) The irony of "restoring a functioning state of law" by going self-judicial and killing people. The mental gymnasics are insane. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 point 2 months ago History proves me right. Germany after WW2 is one example. Anyhow, I phrased it as a question and I'd prefer if we work on an answer to that. Elsewise it might seem like you don't believe that the USA's current regime is wrong. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike. These fuckwits are most certainly tyrants per my cultures definition using bribery, intimidation, and legal bullfuckery to build their stupid AI data centers. Oh also quite a few of them want to set up a tachno fascist dictatorship. So in summary hang em high and let the ravens feast apon their gallow corpses. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago "They only give compute services to the nazis, it's not like they're the ones dropping bombs on schools just becuase they designed the clanker that told them to" https://izri.online/blog/pentagon-grok-military-strikes-iran-june-2026 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets Where is this democracy you speak of? Did you vote for your tax dollars to pay these companies to kill innocent kids for the crime of being born into the worst apartheid we've seen since the 40s? permalink fedilink source parent [–] architect 7 points 2 months ago (2 children) Wrong. Read the Epstein files. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) This argument is obviously in bad faith. I'm for prosecuting criminals and rapists in the Epstein files. But generalizing all Tech CEOs to rape kids is bit of a stretch permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago When its over half of them, and the other half are literal natzis from south Africa or have some other kind of weird racist origin I think its pretty safe to say all of them. Not to mention ALL of the major tech and ai companies have installed someone from unit 8200. Its not in bad faith when the list of "good" tech ceos is under a handful. permalink fedilink source parent [–] redwattlebird 6 points 2 months ago But we're in a plutocracy, not a democracy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago* Sure but do we live in a true democracy, when the law protects the elite and not the many? A functional democracy sounds like a cool idea. But we don't have one. So if we can't have it I guess I will laugh when billionaires die instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] IamBlank@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago Violence is a useful tool. What Luigi did was just. When reason, negotiation, a plea for empathy or sympathy fails and exploitation continues, violence is the answer. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) isnt a part of the epstein files basically about skinning children to the bone permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) No. But there's a conspiracy tale claiming Dems are pedovores, and I'm sure believers of that see it in the Epstein files too. Just a re-hashing of the age-old blood libel conspiracy narrative. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago* (2 children) The LLMS convinced maybe 15+ kids to kill themselves. Claude told the us goverment to bomb a kids school. I mean you're kind of splitting hairs on what kind of child murder the LLMs are enabling. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I can use a hammer to kill a person. A suicidal person can buy a rope to hang themselves. Of course an AI is different in that it almost seems conscious and like its talking to you when its not. I'm not a lawyer or the company in question. But I don't think this warrants banning the entire technology permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) First show me where I said we should ban them. Second: If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn't locked away in a gun safe unloaded. LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don't want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that's impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product. permalink fedilink source parent [–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I doubt it's possible to reach a democracy without violence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 point 2 months ago The state has a monopoly on violence which it should use within accordance to law to uphold the law and democracy. Self-justice is a huge problem in that regard permalink fedilink source parent [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 months ago (1 child) Wrong, murder and violence isn’t the answer in a democracy. You think you're in a democracy? Cute... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 1 point 2 months ago permalink fedilink source parent
[+] timestatic@feddit.org -30 points 2 months ago (20 children) Wrong, murder and violence isn't the answer in a democracy. They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 20 child comments replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children) They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone. It requires a certain type of ignorance to not see how evil the likes of peter Thiel are. In addition to how his products are literally killing children: He's basically part of MAGA, actively destroying the USA. He has expressed horrid views over time, not the worst of which is that he doesn't believe in democracy. (edit: and he has both the will and the money to put his views into practice) So yeah, removing people like him is the answer, if we want to get back to a functioning State of Law. And since the US government is in cahoots with them, there's not going to be a just trial. So what else to do? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org -2 points 2 months ago (1 child) The irony of "restoring a functioning state of law" by going self-judicial and killing people. The mental gymnasics are insane. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 point 2 months ago History proves me right. Germany after WW2 is one example. Anyhow, I phrased it as a question and I'd prefer if we work on an answer to that. Elsewise it might seem like you don't believe that the USA's current regime is wrong. permalink fedilink source parent [–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike. These fuckwits are most certainly tyrants per my cultures definition using bribery, intimidation, and legal bullfuckery to build their stupid AI data centers. Oh also quite a few of them want to set up a tachno fascist dictatorship. So in summary hang em high and let the ravens feast apon their gallow corpses. permalink fedilink source parent [–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago "They only give compute services to the nazis, it's not like they're the ones dropping bombs on schools just becuase they designed the clanker that told them to" https://izri.online/blog/pentagon-grok-military-strikes-iran-june-2026 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets Where is this democracy you speak of? Did you vote for your tax dollars to pay these companies to kill innocent kids for the crime of being born into the worst apartheid we've seen since the 40s? permalink fedilink source parent [–] architect 7 points 2 months ago (2 children) Wrong. Read the Epstein files. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) This argument is obviously in bad faith. I'm for prosecuting criminals and rapists in the Epstein files. But generalizing all Tech CEOs to rape kids is bit of a stretch permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago When its over half of them, and the other half are literal natzis from south Africa or have some other kind of weird racist origin I think its pretty safe to say all of them. Not to mention ALL of the major tech and ai companies have installed someone from unit 8200. Its not in bad faith when the list of "good" tech ceos is under a handful. permalink fedilink source parent [–] redwattlebird 6 points 2 months ago But we're in a plutocracy, not a democracy. permalink fedilink source parent [–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago* Sure but do we live in a true democracy, when the law protects the elite and not the many? A functional democracy sounds like a cool idea. But we don't have one. So if we can't have it I guess I will laugh when billionaires die instead. permalink fedilink source parent [–] IamBlank@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago Violence is a useful tool. What Luigi did was just. When reason, negotiation, a plea for empathy or sympathy fails and exploitation continues, violence is the answer. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) isnt a part of the epstein files basically about skinning children to the bone permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) No. But there's a conspiracy tale claiming Dems are pedovores, and I'm sure believers of that see it in the Epstein files too. Just a re-hashing of the age-old blood libel conspiracy narrative. permalink fedilink source parent [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago* (2 children) The LLMS convinced maybe 15+ kids to kill themselves. Claude told the us goverment to bomb a kids school. I mean you're kind of splitting hairs on what kind of child murder the LLMs are enabling. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I can use a hammer to kill a person. A suicidal person can buy a rope to hang themselves. Of course an AI is different in that it almost seems conscious and like its talking to you when its not. I'm not a lawyer or the company in question. But I don't think this warrants banning the entire technology permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) First show me where I said we should ban them. Second: If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn't locked away in a gun safe unloaded. LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don't want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that's impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product. permalink fedilink source parent [–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I doubt it's possible to reach a democracy without violence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 point 2 months ago The state has a monopoly on violence which it should use within accordance to law to uphold the law and democracy. Self-justice is a huge problem in that regard permalink fedilink source parent [–] 0x0@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 months ago (1 child) Wrong, murder and violence isn’t the answer in a democracy. You think you're in a democracy? Cute... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 1 point 2 months ago permalink fedilink source parent
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children) They work on LLMs, not on skinning children to the bone. It requires a certain type of ignorance to not see how evil the likes of peter Thiel are. In addition to how his products are literally killing children: He's basically part of MAGA, actively destroying the USA. He has expressed horrid views over time, not the worst of which is that he doesn't believe in democracy. (edit: and he has both the will and the money to put his views into practice) So yeah, removing people like him is the answer, if we want to get back to a functioning State of Law. And since the US government is in cahoots with them, there's not going to be a just trial. So what else to do? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org -2 points 2 months ago (1 child) The irony of "restoring a functioning state of law" by going self-judicial and killing people. The mental gymnasics are insane. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 point 2 months ago History proves me right. Germany after WW2 is one example. Anyhow, I phrased it as a question and I'd prefer if we work on an answer to that. Elsewise it might seem like you don't believe that the USA's current regime is wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] timestatic@feddit.org -2 points 2 months ago (1 child) The irony of "restoring a functioning state of law" by going self-judicial and killing people. The mental gymnasics are insane. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 point 2 months ago History proves me right. Germany after WW2 is one example. Anyhow, I phrased it as a question and I'd prefer if we work on an answer to that. Elsewise it might seem like you don't believe that the USA's current regime is wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 point 2 months ago History proves me right. Germany after WW2 is one example. Anyhow, I phrased it as a question and I'd prefer if we work on an answer to that. Elsewise it might seem like you don't believe that the USA's current regime is wrong. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants alike. These fuckwits are most certainly tyrants per my cultures definition using bribery, intimidation, and legal bullfuckery to build their stupid AI data centers. Oh also quite a few of them want to set up a tachno fascist dictatorship. So in summary hang em high and let the ravens feast apon their gallow corpses. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 months ago "They only give compute services to the nazis, it's not like they're the ones dropping bombs on schools just becuase they designed the clanker that told them to" https://izri.online/blog/pentagon-grok-military-strikes-iran-june-2026 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets Where is this democracy you speak of? Did you vote for your tax dollars to pay these companies to kill innocent kids for the crime of being born into the worst apartheid we've seen since the 40s? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] architect 7 points 2 months ago (2 children) Wrong. Read the Epstein files. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) This argument is obviously in bad faith. I'm for prosecuting criminals and rapists in the Epstein files. But generalizing all Tech CEOs to rape kids is bit of a stretch permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago When its over half of them, and the other half are literal natzis from south Africa or have some other kind of weird racist origin I think its pretty safe to say all of them. Not to mention ALL of the major tech and ai companies have installed someone from unit 8200. Its not in bad faith when the list of "good" tech ceos is under a handful. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) This argument is obviously in bad faith. I'm for prosecuting criminals and rapists in the Epstein files. But generalizing all Tech CEOs to rape kids is bit of a stretch permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago When its over half of them, and the other half are literal natzis from south Africa or have some other kind of weird racist origin I think its pretty safe to say all of them. Not to mention ALL of the major tech and ai companies have installed someone from unit 8200. Its not in bad faith when the list of "good" tech ceos is under a handful. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago When its over half of them, and the other half are literal natzis from south Africa or have some other kind of weird racist origin I think its pretty safe to say all of them. Not to mention ALL of the major tech and ai companies have installed someone from unit 8200. Its not in bad faith when the list of "good" tech ceos is under a handful. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] redwattlebird 6 points 2 months ago But we're in a plutocracy, not a democracy. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago* Sure but do we live in a true democracy, when the law protects the elite and not the many? A functional democracy sounds like a cool idea. But we don't have one. So if we can't have it I guess I will laugh when billionaires die instead. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IamBlank@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago Violence is a useful tool. What Luigi did was just. When reason, negotiation, a plea for empathy or sympathy fails and exploitation continues, violence is the answer. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrKoyun@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child) isnt a part of the epstein files basically about skinning children to the bone permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) No. But there's a conspiracy tale claiming Dems are pedovores, and I'm sure believers of that see it in the Epstein files too. Just a re-hashing of the age-old blood libel conspiracy narrative. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) No. But there's a conspiracy tale claiming Dems are pedovores, and I'm sure believers of that see it in the Epstein files too. Just a re-hashing of the age-old blood libel conspiracy narrative. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 months ago* (2 children) The LLMS convinced maybe 15+ kids to kill themselves. Claude told the us goverment to bomb a kids school. I mean you're kind of splitting hairs on what kind of child murder the LLMs are enabling. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I can use a hammer to kill a person. A suicidal person can buy a rope to hang themselves. Of course an AI is different in that it almost seems conscious and like its talking to you when its not. I'm not a lawyer or the company in question. But I don't think this warrants banning the entire technology permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) First show me where I said we should ban them. Second: If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn't locked away in a gun safe unloaded. LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don't want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that's impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] timestatic@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I can use a hammer to kill a person. A suicidal person can buy a rope to hang themselves. Of course an AI is different in that it almost seems conscious and like its talking to you when its not. I'm not a lawyer or the company in question. But I don't think this warrants banning the entire technology permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) First show me where I said we should ban them. Second: If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn't locked away in a gun safe unloaded. LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don't want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that's impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FoxAlive@lemmy.zip 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) First show me where I said we should ban them. Second: If you where to leave a loaded gun out on the table, and someone where to steal it off your table you would also be held liable for the crime because it wasn't locked away in a gun safe unloaded. LLMs are the equivalent of handing out a loaded gun to everyone for free, even if they adamantly don't want one. People like Sam Altmann and elon musk who keep pushing for this garbage to be your therapist and the only way to interact with life should face serious consequences like life in prison, and the companies they run should get a fine that's impossibly large to pay off just like how infowars got a 500billion dollar fine. Info wars and chatgpt are pretty much the same product. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 child) I doubt it's possible to reach a democracy without violence. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 point 2 months ago The state has a monopoly on violence which it should use within accordance to law to uphold the law and democracy. Self-justice is a huge problem in that regard permalink fedilink source parent
[–] timestatic@feddit.org 1 point 2 months ago The state has a monopoly on violence which it should use within accordance to law to uphold the law and democracy. Self-justice is a huge problem in that regard permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 months ago (1 child) Wrong, murder and violence isn’t the answer in a democracy. You think you're in a democracy? Cute... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] busted_Anoose@aussie.zone 1 point 2 months ago permalink fedilink source parent