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   BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 (bonehousewasps@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:54:57 JST BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

   @josh0 Google's search is its #1 product. What happens when they break it completely - when *no-one* trusts it and they're up to their eyeballs in debt? This rush to AI could kill them.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 21:54:57 JST Rich Felker

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     @BonehouseWasps @josh0 Don't threaten us with a good time.

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     BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 (bonehousewasps@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 22:51:23 JST BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @josh0 It sounds good but Google crashing suddenly would likely decimate the tech sector. I suspect that AI will anyway in the medium term - unless they magically find a way to make it profitable but something like that would be disastrous for people's jobs and not just at Google.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 22:51:23 JST Rich Felker

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     @BonehouseWasps @josh0 Again, don't threaten me with a good time. "Decimate the tech sector" is music to my ears. I utterly despise this entire industry/sector.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 22:53:49 JST Rich Felker

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     @BonehouseWasps @josh0 The internet, and supporting communication & computing infrastructure, needs to exist for real world business and public purposes that are actually productive and pro-social. Not for techbros to keep bombarding society with their latest scams.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 23:55:42 JST Rich Felker

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     @BonehouseWasps @josh0 Good people have had enough time to read the room and get out...

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     BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 (bonehousewasps@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 23:55:43 JST BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @josh0 I don't necessarily disagree, it's just that a lot of good people are going to get hurt at the same time. I'm also not sure if what comes after will necessarily be better.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 11:51:37 JST Rich Felker

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     @BonehouseWasps @josh0 They're already trying to create that but with them coming out on top. I'd rather it happen in a way they crash hardest.

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     BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺 (bonehousewasps@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 11:51:38 JST BoneHouseWasps🔶🇬🇧🇪🇺

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @josh0 If a tech sector crash does occur, it won't just be people who work in tech are affected, it would cause a global recession. I lost two jobs to a combination of Brexit and Covid. I was on the "right side" of both.