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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How many times did he shoot himself?

I mean there is a pattern to these things.
If Putin doesn't like you, you shoot yourself and then jump out of a building.
If the Clintons don't like you, you shoot yourself twice in the back of the head before driving your car off a cliff.
If you have dirt on powerful people, you hang yourself in prison.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

According to the police records, the man committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head.

edit: after reading your comment more carefully, you actually already mentioned that. oopsie.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

What kind of info do you think they could have had? With boeing, it's probably something about corruption, pocketing state subsidy money that should have gone to actual projects, or something similar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

Kinda like when all those whistle-blowers in Russia accidently fall out the window.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago

Devs was a fun show.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Did he fall out a window?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

OpenAI is a slimy company with slimy leadership that hoovers up people's work without permission and without punlishment, and turns scientific discoveries into a walled garden of overhyped spam generators.

Do they really need a whistleblower to tell us this?

[–] [email protected] 220 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.....Yea I'm not buying it.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yep, he definitely got suicided. It without question was a staged murder setup to lead investigators to deem it as such...

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[–] [email protected] 149 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Balaji's parents claim to have evidence from their independent investigation, such as ballistic evidence from the private autopsy, which they claim shows a downwards bullet travel path that would be impossible by a self-administered gunshot. Balaji's parents also claim that a tuft of wig hair found at the scene that did not belong to Suchir represents unexplained evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji#Skepticism_and_calls_for_further_investigation

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago

Also, the fact that he had the balls to blow the whistle seems to imply that he had no intention of ending his life before he could actually follow through.

This shit is just so obvious.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You've heard about a Boeing suicide, no we have new age OpenAI suicide.

People love mocking Russians when their "leaders" fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

As someone living in Russia, we don't do this window joke. We joke about sugar in Ryazan (aka Putin blows up houses), we joke about 146%, we joke about poisoned tea.

There's also been a story of a group of anarchists trying to build some kind of an organization and reproducing "Lord of the Flies" in process, resulting in murders of two of them and the rest trying to cover it up, it's still not certain that the one who came clear is in fact the murderer ; interesting that those murders were the only thing to interest law enforcement until a few years later, when the group as a whole formally not breaking any laws stopped being a hindrance. Point being - there are sometimes suspicions that groups like this are often intentionally created by FSB agents or whatever, to attract people likely to feel this way.

And when I was reading about where the window joke comes from, it's about a couple of scientists falling out of windows about the same time. I suppose with the defense-related (and in general strategic projects) corruption there could be some principled positions leading to murders covered up as suicides.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Weren't there two boing suicides? Or the second one was something more creative, I think.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Second one had enough plausible deniability to permit neo lib regime whores to label it as a "conspiracy theory"

They will pretend that the first one did not happen or that it was a fluke in the system of "democracy"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

People love mocking Russians when their “leaders” fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?

You assumed it was about being fair. People just like to shit on russia to distract from internal problems, it was never about the "people falling out of the window" thing.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 week ago (4 children)

America's version of fell out the window

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

Indeed, Balaji’s death — of a self-inflicted gunshot, per the San Francisco County Medical Examiner’s report — had become a focal point in debates over AI ethics, corporate accountability, and the dangers faced by whistleblowers in Silicon Valley. Whether these things become disentangled now remains to be seen.

Bet they don’t

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can someone fill me in on the missing info here…

How is it that Zuck has been busted (basically) for training his ai on 80TB of pirated materials via torrents and it seems to be getting swept under the rug, yet this poor guy points out Sam Altman doing the same and he’s suicided?

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago

Yeah, you just threatened a $600 billion a year industry and no one murdered you.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Yeah, everyone knows that people who have the courage to blow the whistle when they see awful shit, are likely to kill themselves before they can share that information with anyone... Makes complete sense.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (11 children)

if you plan to whistleblow something, always plan it thoroughly so you cant be silenced by being murdered.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's a great idea, though in practice I fear you'd seem like Snowden and everyone would eventually coalesce around the idea that you're a traitor because you didn't get assassinated or put into a dark hole to be forgotten.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why does the news increasingly sound like the lore of Cyberpunk 2077?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (2 children)

...but without the fucking cool stuff.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

Give it 52 years and we'll have more cool stuff, plus 300% more ads.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

We got some of it, its just that killer drones and SI aren't as cool on this side of the screen, and the cyberware is only for rich people (though there is a growing 3D printed movement for amputees) That said with some craft skills we can at least make the cool punk armor and kneepads and have it be reasonably functional, even deploy a blade if you're ambitious, though more predator than mantis in that regard.

Be the change you want to see.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you accidentally a word.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

Suuuuure it was.

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