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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:16:33 JST nixCraft 🐧

   WTF? 😳 OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment: Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. Balaji helped gather and organize the enormous amounts of internet data used to train the startup’s ChatGPT chatbot. Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the OpenAI https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/openai-whistleblower-found-dead-in-san-francisco-apartment/

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     nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:16:42 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     You read this kind of stuff in comic books or fictional books, but it seems that fiction is slowly becoming reality. Powerful corporations will have unlimited money doing crazy things and will not be afraid of laws. This is a messed up situation for sure.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:18:27 JST Nazo

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     @nixCraft Eh... There's a lot of really bad stuff I'd be willing to lump on companies that push AI, but I seriously doubt they're having people murdered. "Found dead" and "was murdered" mean two very different things. Especially with the police themselves saying there was no evidence of foul play.

     We haven't *quite* reached Russia's point of people just suddenly falling out of windows or ingesting poison and the police ignoring it. Yet.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:18:27 JST Rich Felker

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft I don't know enough of the facts on this one to say, but Boeing was surely murder.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:21:44 JST Rich Felker

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/boeing-whistleblower-dead-joshua-dean-45-sudden-severe-infection/

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:21:45 JST Nazo

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     @dalias @nixCraft Boeing?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:33:09 JST Rich Felker

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft As I recall the first one they killed had explicitly warned that he feared fir his life and was adamant that he would not commit suicide and that if anyone said he did, it would be murder.

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     Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:33:10 JST Nazo

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     @dalias @nixCraft Well, it's certainly not "falling out a window" level obvious. It still leaves a decently large amount of room for doubt and questions. Especially in this day and age of us living in a pro-disease society.

     Not saying it isn't murder -- I absolutely wouldn't pretend to know -- just that it's definitely not what you'd call a clear-cut case.

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     vxo (vxo@digipres.club)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:44:38 JST vxo

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft considering how much defense sector shit is dependent on Boeing and probably also OpenAI, uhhhh, maybe "disappeared" is almost the right word

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 11:46:25 JST Rich Felker

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     @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft In that case, the "conspiracy theory" explanation would be that he "staged his own murder trying to frame Boeing to make them look (more than they did already) bad" 🙄 while Occam's Razor says Boeing murdered him.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 12:30:50 JST Rich Felker

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     @rjblaskiewicz @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft You failed to read. Infection was the second death not the first.

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     Bob Blaskiewicz (rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 12:30:51 JST Bob Blaskiewicz

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft Nope. Occam's razor says it was an infection.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 12:51:36 JST Rich Felker

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     @rjblaskiewicz @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft That is the most despicable take I've heard yet.

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     Bob Blaskiewicz (rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 12:51:37 JST Bob Blaskiewicz

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft You're right. I apologize. The fact he brought up suicide suggests he had suicide on his mind.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 13:05:07 JST Rich Felker

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     @rjblaskiewicz @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft I mean the idea that someone says "I'm not going to commit suicide" is evidence of suicide is despicable. It's setting up a no-win situation for someone whose life is threatened.

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     Bob Blaskiewicz (rjblaskiewicz@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 13:05:08 JST Bob Blaskiewicz

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

     Despic it all you like. Most conspiracy theories paper over unknowns with our own fears, projections, and facile cookie-cutter narratives. I think the ready-baked explanations are generally the least plausible. At least my narrative centers on the genuine suffering that whistleblowers face.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 13:45:53 JST Rich Felker

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     @rjblaskiewicz @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft Honestly your speculation was more offensive. Your conclusion there is backed by some evidence rather than just "anyone who talked about suicide must have been suicidal".

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

     Fuck, even his lawyers thought that his testimony triggered him. I don't see anything suggesting that he has a premonition of foul play in the first place. So I retract my speculation. He just killed himself. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-boeing-whistleblower-testified-12-100000958.html

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 13:53:16 JST Rich Felker

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     @rjblaskiewicz @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft It was reported even in mainstream sources at the time it happened. But again, that's not even the point. The most offensive and unjust thing you said was the implication: that, *if* he said he wasn't going to commit suicide, that makes suicide more likely.

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

     You have every right to be offended. Where did he say that he was not going to kill himself? I didn't see it.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 14:05:54 JST Rich Felker

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     @rjblaskiewicz @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft Saying it in the context of general distress or mental health crisis is completely different from saying it in the context of having reason to fear one will be murdered.

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     @dalias @nazokiyoubinbou @nixCraft

     Not that it necessarily makes it more likely, just that he has suicide on his mind. (Though I defy you to show me someone who deliberately kills themself without thinking about killing themself.) I mean, who says, "I'm totally not gonna kill myself" out loud? It's like one of those things that is assumed in all social interactions. But did he ever say it? I sort of remember it, but I don't see it.