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walrus01 2 minutes ago [-]
Well this is all pretty fucking horrifying.
tedggh 9 minutes ago [-]
How come Flock is not listed? That’s the most troubling company a16z has heavily invested on and supported.
torginus 42 minutes ago [-]
If you think this is morally acceptable, in which case, what you're doing is essentially trying to trick the algorithm to uprank your content. But people at Facebook/X/Youtube can just update a table row and accomplish 1000x as much as you're trying to do. Their business model is selling a less powerful version of that.
When I was a kid, I used to go on private WoW servers. There were always people there who would invariably try to pick a fight with admins. It always went the way you expected.
octocop 31 minutes ago [-]
If your metric is growth I guess this is where you end up
zipy124 16 minutes ago [-]
I mean a lot of successful new tech companies were about side-stepping legislation. Some that are missing here are airbnb which effectively side-stepped fairly strict hotel legislation (Though there is a case to be made that it simply improved short-term lodging), and uber which side-stepped strong taxi/private-hire legislation.
This is one of the primary reasons that tech startups flourish in America but not in Europe.
Havoc 43 minutes ago [-]
Intentionally going after old people because they’re more susceptible to AI and declaring as much on record is fuckin wild.
Does SV now optimize for evilness?
georgefrowny 36 minutes ago [-]
They call it "goal orientation".
I think there's a reason they fret so much about the paperclip optimisers, because they recognise them.
LandR 28 minutes ago [-]
> Does SV now optimize for evilness?
Since when has it not ?
kotaKat 33 minutes ago [-]
They’ve been grooming the elderly for years to fall for right wing propaganda to keep securing the ignorant elderly vote so this is just the natural progression to keep grooming them to fall for whatever narrative Horowitz wants to peddle for his GOP overlords to get one final dickover on the country as it keeps running into the ground.
alex1138 23 minutes ago [-]
I remember reading about Andreessen coaching Zuckerberg, having to spoon feed him answers at trial, and apparently he was one of the masterminds behind the dual class shares/proposed third class of share
(I mean that Zuckerberg apparently understood nothing. I mean when I say, 'spoon feed')
This is the same man who came out and said Snowden is a traitor. Now, I've since heard other versions on this so I'm willing to entertain the arguments. But a top VC being like he is, well, it's concerning. It's concerning he chooses what to fund
When I was a kid, I used to go on private WoW servers. There were always people there who would invariably try to pick a fight with admins. It always went the way you expected.
This is one of the primary reasons that tech startups flourish in America but not in Europe.
Does SV now optimize for evilness?
I think there's a reason they fret so much about the paperclip optimisers, because they recognise them.
Since when has it not ?
(I mean that Zuckerberg apparently understood nothing. I mean when I say, 'spoon feed')
This is the same man who came out and said Snowden is a traitor. Now, I've since heard other versions on this so I'm willing to entertain the arguments. But a top VC being like he is, well, it's concerning. It's concerning he chooses what to fund