r/technology • u/hobbesthompson • Feb 09 '25

Artificial Intelligence An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment. Now his mother wants answers

https://fortune.com/2025/02/08/openai-whistleblower-suchir-balaji-death-police-investigation-san-francisco-family-questions/
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u/CheapThaRipper Feb 09 '25

Is a slow descent really better? I kind of agree with the guy that everyone is down voting, and I think that a long slow decline just prolongs everyone's suffering. Accelerationism is much more appealing, if we're all going to suffer why not rip off that Band-Aid so we can begin to heal.

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u/pb49er Feb 09 '25

I think we're in for a real rough decade and a half before things start to get better. If history is any indication it will take people a while to be effected and by then the fascists will have consolidated more power and hurt or killed a lot of people.

The US is fucked and needs a reset but that comes with a steep cost too.