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…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.
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.
He’s building that insane clock in the desert, does that count?
Amazon is one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
There is a good chance the instance you are browsing lemmy on is using Amazon hardware.
They are one of the premier IaaS and PaaS companies, as well as the owners of tons of platforms including websites like twitch.
I think you need to read the comment you replied to. It seems like you commented before reading anything past the first sentence.
Bold of you to assume voters even know that Jassy is running Amazon. Most people in polls like this vote based on which name they recognize and dislike the most. The only legit competition in name recognition Jeff had on the right side bracket was Steve Jobs.
Look, I agree, but the comment that they replied to explained that…
Oh, I’m not faulting you or the original comment about Jassy, just a general lament about how bad the voting is on polls like this. This thread is full of other brain-dead takes that have nothing to do with tech.
Definitely agreed there!
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.
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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.
Very amusing. I still know barely anything about him, but I’m thoroughly convinced.
How could anyone but musk win?
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.
Depends on if we consider Zuccer a person.
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.
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.
At this point it’s like choosing cancer over Alzheimer’s. Die from excruciating inner torment or infuriate everyone else until you die.
I dunno, some of these votes are like comparing stage 4 leukemia to a mere urinary tract infection, and the UTI is somehow winning.
Go UTI!
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?
All modern movies are kinda tech products. At least in a sense that there’s crazy amount of cutting edge tech involved in making them as well as during the consumption of that media
It’s all content now unfortunately
How is Altman worse than sbf
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.
Altman is also into crypto, so it’s a double whammy
SBF funded a lot of the whackos that created the situation at OpenAI.
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I hope you don’t expect any help if you ever get ripped off. Some of them were poor as hell, show some compassion and respect.
It’ll be musk. He is just the worst person.
It’ll be a popularity contest, but Musk isn’t the worst. He’s just the most well known.
Musk is more of a misguided idiot than evil.
But Musk arguably does more harm to the society. If there’s evil billionaires, they can be exposed, sued and punished according to the law. But what Musk does is spreading division and hate among the general public. The same thing Trump does. This ruins a generation, a country or even the whole world if the world doesn’t restore balance. Division and hate among the general public throws a society back in ways that’s very hard to recover from.
Thiel has spent his entire life with that as his goal. Thiel has caused more harm and is more evil.
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
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 is the worst…
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)
the heck, how did altman get so far? not that hes an angel(by far no), but someone like SBF did way worse imo
bezos
Well if the title is for just 2023 I think musk has it, if we take overall negative impact in a lifetime then I’m not sure but musk is probably not as bad.
Gee, I wonder how this will end if lemmy gets to vote.
The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?
How the hell did Gates get eliminated in the first round??
EDIT: to people downvoting me, could any of you explain what good Bill Gates has done for the world of software?
Better question: who the fuck is Palmer Luckey?
Dude invented oculus
Ok but what has he done to earn a nomination as the worst person in tech?
Being bought out by Facebook doesn’t seem to qualify, especially when Zuckerberg lost in the first round too…
