9 comments

  • torginus 26 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 15 minutes ago

    If your metric is growth I guess this is where you end up

  • alex1138 7 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

  • Havoc 27 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 20 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 12 minutes ago

      > Does SV now optimize for evilness?

      Since when has it not ?

    • kotaKat 17 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.

  • conartist6 43 minutes ago

    Shit-eaters

    • pythonic_hell 39 minutes ago

      Ghouls. Sucking the life out of society.