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[–] Pyramid8058@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think I'd say Thiel is worse than Musk. He supports anti-gay politicians while being gay himself. Tax cuts are more important than having the law treat people as human beings.

It's possible that Musk might fail to understand exactly how shitty he's being due to his autism, I'm pretty sure Thiel knows he's fucking people over and doesn't care. Also the whole bloodboy thing.

[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

At least Musk is so loud and obnoxious that it's easy to avoid him. Lex Luthor sits over there at Amazon quietly taking over the world and almost nobody gives him a second thought.

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[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How could anyone but musk win?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Peter Thiel is also abysmal. Elon is more visibly terrible today but Thiel has been bankrolling regressives from the shadows for 20 years. He published his first screed about diversity in academia in 1995. So he is an all-time shitstain, for sure.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on if we consider Zuccer a person.

[–] gravitywell@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zuck is bad sure, but he's not a jackass, at least not publicly, he might not have made the best decision for meta but the company is by no means failing, Elon is just so much worse on every level.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Not failing, but actively ignoring Metas own research that shows Facebook is directly harmful to children and teens.

I’d say actively continuing to harm children should outrank being a jackass and/or incompetence.

[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

At this point it's like choosing cancer over Alzheimer's. Die from excruciating inner torment or infuriate everyone else until you die.

[–] EnderMB@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

...How is Bezos in the running?

Jassy is the CEO of Amazon. Outside of space cuntery and being on the chair, he's not really in tech.

With that being said, it's still hilarious to me that Jassy has been CEO for two years, and most people still assume Bezos is boss.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think if you made billions in tech, you always qualify. To some degree even more after you stop working and still can't find time to do anything beneficial for the world.

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

He's building that insane clock in the desert, does that count?

http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html

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[–] PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too bad Zuckerberg is about to feast on our data now that Threads has federated

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] kaleid@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Neato@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's small time. He's ruining one big-ish social platform. While people like Zuck are ruining many!

[–] kaleid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Can't argue with that. But I have to admit that I miss reddit, mate. Hence my question.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

He’s an insignificant gnat.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it that every bracket isn't just "Elon Musk"?

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thiel's worse, he just hasn't made a celebrity of himself

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk shouldn't have won against Ellison. Musk is an uncontrolled trainwreck, sure, but Ellison is a highly controlled and effective lawnmower. He's just better at not being known.

[–] SebKra@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

Very amusing. I still know barely anything about him, but I'm thoroughly convinced.

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How is Altman worse than sbf

[–] Spedwell@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

SBF's peak was a few years ago. This year all he's done is show during his trial how deluded these techbros/EAs can actually be. At least SBF had the common courtesy to remove himself from public life within 5 years. Style points for the life-in-prison ending, while simultaneously killing mainstream crypto.

We're stuck with Altman for the foreseeable future, and now with a recently purged OpenAI board that will let him continue the industry-wide commercialization of copyright infringement (but only of the laypersons' IP. Better not ask it to draw Mickey Mouse, though).

It's also really unclear where OpenAI lies on the EA/Longtermist/E Acc pipeline. Altman is likely letting whackos have some pretty serious power.

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago

Altman is also into crypto, so it's a double whammy

[–] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

SBF funded a lot of the whackos that created the situation at OpenAI.

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should David Zaslav really be considered in tech? If WB Discovery is considered a tech company, then the Barbie movie is now (technically) a tech product...

How do you do, fellow tech workers?

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It'll be musk. He is just the worst person.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How did Nadella lose to Altman? Nadella is the reason Altman is what it is now. The reason open ai is not anymore an independent no profit research team to push open AI solutions.

He's the king maker of evil tech. Nadella vs Musk is the only possible final. Whoever voted is insulting one of 2 main contenders. Like CEO of BP losing to a gas pump owner

[–] MeatsOfRage@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's almost as if this is the most popular worst tech person. It's like that year all of Reddit voted EA the worst company in the world. There are companies out there costing people their lives by intentional malfeasance but a company is doing video games dirty.

[–] FuyuhikoDate@silkky.pub 6 points 1 year ago

So much names i never ever heard before and i dont wanna look up, after knowing what a fucker musk is (also he wil win)

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a small time capitalist. These guys have society shaping power and wealth

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree with you, but in 2023 unity fuck up was one of the major events cause most developers used unity and still continue using it

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?

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