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Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 154 points 9 months ago (4 children)

This is some true believer shit.

Google launched less than thirty years ago.

At the current rate of deterioration, it's not exactly certain to what extent the planet will be able to sustain human life, much less whether a much loathed spyware company will still be around to pay the bills.

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  • [+] -37 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Is Google "much loathed"? It's thanks to Google that the world's largest browser engine and operating system are both open source. Yes we can list bad things they've done but they've also done a lot of good.

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  • [–] 61 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Holdovers from when "don't be evil" was still a thing.

    Both Android and Chromium are rapidly deteriorating in regards to FOSS. Yes, they are technically FOSS, but in the stranglehold of Google who keep carving away more and more freedoms.

    Just consider Google Play Integrity and Manifest v3 (in regards to e.g. Adblocking) as two obvious examples.

    If Google could, they'd instantly close the Android sources and remove the ability to adblock on Chromium.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    Our minds like to process entities/companies like Google as human beings, which allows us to assign emotions to these things. But the truth is, they are nothing but a glorified Chinese room experiment.

    People made the largest browser engine and operating system, not Google. Without people, the company is nothing. A company like Google is nothing but a set of self operating rules.

    I love/loathe Google just as much as I love/loathe my weekly /tmp cleaning cron job. Even if it accidentally nukes my files, it's just doing as it's designed to do.

    You design a system to maximize shareholder value, it will do exactly that without caring a single thing about human ethics.

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