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[–] 220 points 2 years ago (1 child)

.....Yea I'm not buying it.

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  • [–] 92 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yep, he definitely got suicided. It without question was a staged murder setup to lead investigators to deem it as such...

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago

    And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.

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  • [–] 149 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Balaji's parents claim to have evidence from their independent investigation, such as ballistic evidence from the private autopsy, which they claim shows a downwards bullet travel path that would be impossible by a self-administered gunshot. Balaji's parents also claim that a tuft of wig hair found at the scene that did not belong to Suchir represents unexplained evidence.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji#Skepticism_and_calls_for_further_investigation

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  • [+] 125 points 2 years ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)
  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    As someone living in Russia, we don't do this window joke. We joke about sugar in Ryazan (aka Putin blows up houses), we joke about 146%, we joke about poisoned tea.

    There's also been a story of a group of anarchists trying to build some kind of an organization and reproducing "Lord of the Flies" in process, resulting in murders of two of them and the rest trying to cover it up, it's still not certain that the one who came clear is in fact the murderer ; interesting that those murders were the only thing to interest law enforcement until a few years later, when the group as a whole formally not breaking any laws stopped being a hindrance. Point being - there are sometimes suspicions that groups like this are often intentionally created by FSB agents or whatever, to attract people likely to feel this way.

    And when I was reading about where the window joke comes from, it's about a couple of scientists falling out of windows about the same time. I suppose with the defense-related (and in general strategic projects) corruption there could be some principled positions leading to murders covered up as suicides.

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    [–] 90 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    America's version of fell out the window

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  • [–] 71 points 2 years ago

    Indeed, Balaji’s death — of a self-inflicted gunshot, per the San Francisco County Medical Examiner’s report — had become a focal point in debates over AI ethics, corporate accountability, and the dangers faced by whistleblowers in Silicon Valley. Whether these things become disentangled now remains to be seen.

    Bet they don’t

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  • [–] [S] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Can someone fill me in on the missing info here…

    How is it that Zuck has been busted (basically) for training his ai on 80TB of pirated materials via torrents and it seems to be getting swept under the rug, yet this poor guy points out Sam Altman doing the same and he’s suicided?

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  • [+] 59 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
    [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, everyone knows that people who have the courage to blow the whistle when they see awful shit, are likely to kill themselves before they can share that information with anyone... Makes complete sense.

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    if you plan to whistleblow something, always plan it thoroughly so you cant be silenced by being murdered.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    And make it abundantly clear to everyone that you're not suicidal. Record videos with date stamps. Send date stamped letters by mail to friends, with instructions to retain the letters indefinitely, and perhaps which are clearly marked "to be opened in the event of my death". The letters should say something along the lines of "I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. I am not going to kill myself under any circumstances. If I die, it was not by suicide. I want to live. I have ABC reasons to live. I have XYZ plans for the future." Etc.

    Keep multiple copies of the information in multiple locations, and make sure multiple people know where a copy is. Ideally, have a dead-man's switch set up, or someone you trust to do it, to automatically send all the information to all the major news outlets if you do turn up dead, along with a statement akin to the letter outlined above to make it clear you were murdered.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure it's in those exact terms, but I think there were a few cases with high levels of preparation. Ended up being ruled as suicides anyway by the courts and the media. Not saying they'll always win, though. But their idealogical power is not to underestimate.

    A minister in my country was deemed to have committed suicide by drowning in a 50cm body of water. Strangely enough, all witnesses have committed suicide too just before being heard by the courts.

    And it worked. Everybody know it wasn't a suicide, but it changes nothing for those responsible of the murder.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The point is like Russian point. It isn't just to silence you so trouble goes away that the whistle-blower was involved with. It's to silence other potential whistle-blowers. It's too send a message.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I read somewhere that, in Russian culture, the more absurd the cover up story the more insulting it is meant to be for the victim.

    Like if someone "shot themselves 3 times in the back of the head then fell out of a window". Maybe Epstein fits into that too

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  • [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why does the news increasingly sound like the lore of Cyberpunk 2077?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I think the constant barrage of bad news that you have no control over is too much. I'm spending more of my free time this year volunteering locally, mostly for selfish reasons like mental health and distraction from Politics.

    Also, given how things are heading, this might be one of our last decent years for spending time outside. So, I’m making an effort to enjoy it while I can.

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    [–] 39 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I think you accidentally a word.

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  • [–] 36 points 2 years ago

    Suuuuure it was.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How many times did he shoot himself?

    I mean there is a pattern to these things.
    If Putin doesn't like you, you shoot yourself and then jump out of a building.
    If the Clintons don't like you, you shoot yourself twice in the back of the head before driving your car off a cliff.
    If you have dirt on powerful people, you hang yourself in prison.

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    [–] 25 points 2 years ago

    Wow that must be pretty crazy to do this to yourself

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'll throw a wild one out there. OpenAI didn't do it. Maybe Elon is in on this one. Makes OpenAI look shady after their recent rebuff of his shit and gives the media something else to chew on while he's dismantling our government with the cheeto emperor.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago

    Kinda like when all those whistle-blowers in Russia accidently fall out the window.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    Devs was a fun show.

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