wtf? why is everyone turning techbro all of a sudden even those who are supposed to be more knowledgeable on such stuff. Oh right because there is a bubble to sustain.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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Didn't Google and Nvidia just throw everything they had into a concerted AGI effort and fail?! ๐คฃ
They warn us about AGI while simultaneously attempting to sell it to us.
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and I thought the service was in good hands in his time... in the meantime he is a garbage person just as much as the average tech leader today
I don't believe a single word of this bullshit.
I highly recommend Kara Swisher's recent book "Burn Book" for insights into the Tech lads like Brin, etc, as she's known most of them since the 90s.
Really helps contextualize the crazy cocktail of engineering/commercial power with general naivety a lot of these guys have going.
They talk about AGI like it's some kind of intrinsically benevolent messiah that is going to come along and free humanity of limitations rather than a product that is going to be monetised to make a few very rich people even richer
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So he's saying they've exhausted the pool of applicants so badly to replace that with normal work weeks, just 150% amount of Googlers or maybe 200% amount of Googlers?
Power and fame break a man. Even if he wasn't broken from the beginning.
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For how many years? Cuz y'all ain't anywhere near AGI. You can't even get generative AI to not suck compared to your competition in that market (which is a pretty low bar) lol
Or, y'know, he could hire 50% more programmers / contractors, instead of overworking his current staff
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With all the rounds of layoffs they've had, their remaining employees would need to be quite stupid to give a shit what this disloyal piece trash says.
Sounds like we don't need it then.
His balls are within reach for stress relief.
You know it's bad when I had to click all the way through to the body of the article to verify this isn't a The Onion thing. Do we still have a "Not The Onion" space here?
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