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The company originally wanted to build just an app

Investors said no, they didnâ(TM)t want to pay app tax, you must build hardware because we want all the revenue plus moat

So they did

Rest is history

"Working with classified materials? You are at a workplace. Working with hardware? You are at a workplace. Working with physical humans?"

At least 2/3 of these are untrue. I've worked on SCI programs from home before. I've worked with hardware remotely; either I log into it or have it shipped to me.

Virtue signalling ultra left academics looking for new ways to prove their religious piety. Ew.

"What happens is that consumers get subsidized initially, and get a false idea of the real cost of new services. When prices inevitably go up, that's seen as enshitification when it's more like the law of gravity"

This is the correct take.

"Avoiding enshittification" is just another way of saying "mommy government please subsidize things so I can buy them below cost".

lol

Your post on supporting Ukraine gets people killed. Youâ(TM)re censored.

Your post on supporting Russia gets people killed. Youâ(TM)re censored.

People so easily fall for what you did

Better that these things are fought in the marketplace of ideas before you have to fight them kinetically.

Also if you censor Nazis then they gain power the censorship machine you built gets turned against you

I engage with lots of Nazis, there is some really interesting history I learned that I wouldnâ(TM)t have otherwise

Amazon explicitly uses diversity hiring to prevent unions. Racially homogenous warehouses were flagged for a high risk of unionization, so those warehouses were targeted to hire "more diverse" people to reduce unionization risk.

Source:

https://archive.fo/1khJw

Nah. Amazon loves diversity, it's a policy they came up with to ensure workers don't unionize.

Source:

https://archive.fo/1khJw

Source:

https://www.dailynews.com/2017...

California (spit) is dealing with wildfire problems because (a) they refuse to do controlled burns or forest cleanup and (b) idiot lefties keep building in tinderboxes. Don't listen to these idiot climate scaremongerers who want you to live in a pod while they fly their private jets.

Nah, you voted for exactly this. The section of US Code I'm referring to deals with environmental "regulation" of "hazardous" substances that was heavily pushed by the left and was touted by all the greenie groups as a major triumph. We on the industry side knew that the "science" behind the regulation was biased, non-reproducible, and had bad data underlying it, but we saw a major money making opportunity to exploit so we latched onto the greenie train and gave them exactly what they stated they wanted, which was a feelgood test method that produced results that had such a large margin of error that it's basically a coin flip.

Again, we gave the greenie groups **exactly and precisely what they asked for**. If anything you should be blaming them for this silliness.

I used to be in this space, and prepped our CTO to testify in favor of certain laws citing "public interest" but it was always a lie and we laughed behind closed doors about how stupid the public was to believe us.

The fact is that as a big company we love all regulation, as all regulation is done from the perspective of what the current status quo is; and as the incumbent leader in a space, we don't want any innovation that doesn't directly serve our roadmap, and we want to bury in paperwork anyone trying anything different; in this way, we maintain our market position. Our patented method for X was successfully written into law as the only way any company in the US could ever comply with regulation Y. We have made hundreds of millions of dollars from that one line in the US Code basically mandating that every company in business Z must pay us in order to business at all. The public are such gullible chumps.

Altman is reading from our well used script here, as his business model depends on the only AIs being allowed are those lobotomized to only emit approved facts and narratives. Thus, he will cite the nebulous but ever present danger of AIs ever being allowed that aren't lobotomized being in the hands of the scruffy, uninformed public - all to preserve his revenue stream and build competitive moat.

After the spectacular cockup on the vaccines for COVID (hooray for a 100x risk of myocarditis over COVID!), no one is going to trust these ghouls again.

"Why don't you consider Mozilla trustworthy?"

https://www.fec.gov/data/recei...

People are tired of woketastic globalist racists mediating, monetizing, and weaponizing the content they see according to their own private biases. And I sure as hell won't trust a "safe" and "truthy" AI written by a bunch of people whose political contributions are 100.0% globalist Democrats:

https://www.fec.gov/data/recei...

The only way forward IMO is that I have a private system that I personally train that runs on hardware I personally own and control. Feed it my emails, my social media content, my photostream, etc. and replicate a digital "me" that acts as I would and gives answers according to my worldview.

Otherwise it's just Facebook all over again where the system will show you bland corporate-speak content where it needs to sell ads, and show you weaponized political content when Facebook's supra-governmental transnational masters want to overthrow a country because the peasants got uppity again.

I would submit that $400k/yr is actually low in most HCOL areas for 15 years experience. I was making $580k/yr by that point in my career as a hardware designer.

I bet this is tied to a discretionary bonus clawback. In which case you simply go to the new employer and say "you have to buy out my bonus from my previous employer if you want me to start tomorrow". They typically do, you quit the next day, and your new employer writes a check to your old one. Easy peasy.