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I’m with you on the second, but I would have a really hard time with the first because Musk is more overtly a piece of shit, but Thiel has had so much influence over the years, including elevating Elon Musk to the position where he is today. I guess if it’s the worst of 2023 and we’re restricting it solely to what we know they’ve said and done in 2023, it would be Musk. But I think overall, it is probably Thiel just because there wouldn’t be an Elon Musk anyone had heard about without Peter Thiel.
In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
But Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil’s overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.
This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.
By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.
He’s not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.
It’s a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid “works” in South Africa according to Thiel
Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don’t want to click through.
And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.
You could put them in a sack and hit the sack with a stick. You’d never hit the wrong guy.
I like this idea much better than picking one of them as the worst person in tech for 2023. Can we do the stick beating instead?
But we definitely need to have Zuck in there too. And maybe Thiel, as a special guest.
The more the merrier!
Could I? Yayyyy!
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No matter who wins we all lose. That’s kind of the point whenever these guys turn up.
Well, and sadly, said.
To make things slightly easier it’s Musk v Thiel and Bezos v Altman.
In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
In the second matchup I would pick Bezos for the larger impact he has had on the world.
I’m with you on the second, but I would have a really hard time with the first because Musk is more overtly a piece of shit, but Thiel has had so much influence over the years, including elevating Elon Musk to the position where he is today. I guess if it’s the worst of 2023 and we’re restricting it solely to what we know they’ve said and done in 2023, it would be Musk. But I think overall, it is probably Thiel just because there wouldn’t be an Elon Musk anyone had heard about without Peter Thiel.
This is the 2023 matchup, so I guess it would put Musk on top
Musk was likely worse in 2023 and does suck a lot in general, Thiel is more dangerous in general
But Musk’s acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil’s overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.
This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.
By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.
Why do people hate Altman? Genuinely OOTL.
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He’s not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.
Also some view ChatGPT (and the other “AIs”) as massive plagiarism machines.
AI or not, plagiarism appears to happen a lot. AI just makes it a little easier than it was before.
His world coin project is one of the sketchiest. Paying people in poor countries to get scanned by this creepy orb thing? Odd.
His sister has also vociferously accused him of molesting her for a period of time when she was 4 and he was 13.
What did Thiel do to make the internet hate him as much as the other three?
So, so, so many things.
Let’s start with him saying women getting the vote was bad for democracy and we can continue on from there.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5
It’s a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid “works” in South Africa according to Thiel
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Musk.