That’s an improvement over humans. Humans violate ethical constraints due to KPI pressures far more often.

You ever ask her why she’s suddenly not as interested in satanic pedo sex cults run by elites now that she knows she helped get one elected as President?

Translation: “Please help us justify our choices to our board. They want to know why we YOLO’d billions into making our users hate us.”

Hilarious, the fantasies you tell yourself just to avoid realizing you’re the problem.

One does not necessarily need the level of capability you’re referring to. The Jews fighting in the Warsaw ghetto did just fine for several weeks without that capability. The same lesson is also being demonstrated in Ukraine.

Yes, the more training, the better. But get a grip. You’re spreading FUD, bootlicker.

You’re statistically more likely to exit a fight with serious injury using a knife over a firearm.

You aren’t considering the correct statistics. Source: I’ve actually read the stats you’re citing and they don’t apply to this situation.

What do you do if you want to leave tech?

You don’t. Every aspect of modern society needs some amount of tech. But the tech we need doesn’t automatically need to be the adware-laden, spyware-as-a-service enshittified garbage that BigTech foists on us in the name of ever-increasing quarterly profits.

We all have a choice. If you can make tech, you can choose to make tech for humans, not corporations. There are numerous apps that we would all love a simple, cleanly implemented version maintained by a small team of individuals dedicated to creating a useful application that solves real-world problems without ripping anybody off or filling our viewscreens with pointless ads.

There’s a simple equation anybody can follow. Make something useful that someone else finds value in, sell it for a reasonable price. That’s it. That’s all any of us need to do in tech. Grab the off-the-shelf hardware, the open-source software, make something useful, and sell it for a modest profit that the makers can live a modest life on.

We all can choose to be less greedy any time we want. We can choose to work for less greedy people. We can choose to maximize for human impact, or for quality, or for longevity. We do not need to keep choosing maximum profit at the expense of our own ecological well-being.

They weren’t that good, just charming.

They weren’t even that charming. Just a little more able to keep their mouths shut while in front of mixed company.

Source: In the early 2000s, I worked in a position that was two degrees away from BillG. I put together presentations and demos that my boss delivered to the man.

Listen to how Melinda talks about her relationship with him for clues about how little actual charisma he has. She’s responsible for every bit of humanity he’s shown over the last three decades. There were interviews he gave prior to marrying her where he expressed open disdain toward humanitarian endeavors.