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Interesting commentary on this by historian Aparna Nair on Bluesky. Essentially, saying that caste and discrimination is inherent in a certain cohort of the society which adhere to racism and eugenics.
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But yeah, some of these emigres still cling onto attitudes and prejudices which they then apply to even a foreign environment. In this case, screwing the millions of people having become heavily reliant on Alphabet products. And Americans now have an FBI director of Indian origin with a fuck-you-got-mine mindset.
On top of that, India in a way is a dystopia where the wealth gap is very staggering. Millions in abject poverty and literally eating from scraps, Muslims are increasingly marginalized, women of all ages almost face sexual violence. While simultaneously having nuclear weapons, a space program, and the most active homegrown industries asides from China.
I hope when he gives his lecture, the students egg him on.
And when I say egg him on... I mean throw. At. And a large quantity of.
Sundar, my enemy, you are very wrong.
Has there ever been a case where a CEO makes a claim that x will change the future of human history and then the CEO has turned out to be correct?
Remember 3D TVs the technology that was so obviously never going to catch on except amongst CEOs. Now where are they? Can you even buy a 3D TV anymore?
Probably CEOs in the 70’s and 80’s that predicted that computers would become ubiquitous and part of everyday life when computers were still only used by scientists, business people and hobbyists. Like Steve Jobs.
Probably. If their primary trait is being a visionary, having creative ideas about how the future could turn out is gonna produce the occasional hit.
The problem is usually that they're so far removed from the lives of normal people that they genuinely can't imagine our perspective anymore: They don't know what day-to-day challenges we face, how our financial worries influence our priorities, how much purchasing power we have, how that influences our price-to-payoff estimates... They also tend to be quite unconcerned with technical limitations and assume there's gotta be a way to implement whatever they cooked up.
3D TV is a great example: In theory is a fancy luxury for people for whom "regular" 2D TV isn't quite enough. In practice, the technology wasn't (yet?) ready to deliver on that, particularly in the face of the various difficulties (having to wear glasses, struggling with eye strain, health issues and so on).
The idea that consumers wouldn't jump at the chance to replace their TVs with a new, expensive and quite clearly immature technology probably didn't intuitively register with people for whom $1k is a negligible sum.
burn it all down then
Go suck a railroad spike, ya jabroni.
"I've always been extraordinarily optimistic about the next generation," he told the hosts. AI, he said, doesn't change that. "My goal would be to share my experiences, and that's what I'm looking to do."
Oh he is going to get booed
live with the consequences of purging the rich people.
If we crowd source a rocket i am told they don't ask questions when we offer them a seat. Oh wait, that was just another lie. I guess a guillotine would be more cost effective than a rocket...
I wonder how he would feel if we then redefined the concept of corporate ownership. "You know those billions in shares you used to own?"
If we ignore what they are calling "AI" then the consequences will be beneficial to all. So, yes, we'll live with those consequences.
Blow his brains out
"I've always been extraordinarily optimistic about the next generation," he told the hosts. AI, he said, doesn't change that. "My goal would be to share my experiences, and that's what I'm looking to do."
I had some money left over this month, so when I noticed my old phone seems to be bulging slightly, I decided I could splurge a little and spend just under 300€ for a decent second-hand one.
But I'm sure his experiences will apply to my situation.
this is the guy who is so bad at his job he tanked google and failed up
"If you don't enjoy being high you'll regret it the rest of you life" (some drug dealer)
The world when it's my time to be an adult
anyone else get this vibe?