Worst person in tech 2023

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman for those who don't want to click through.
And I have no idea which I would choose to face off from those four, let alone who would win.
- You could put them in a sack and hit the sack with a stick. You'd never hit the wrong guy.
  
  I like this idea much better than picking one of them as the worst person in tech for 2023. Can we do the stick beating instead?
  
  Could I? Yayyyy!
  Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack. Whack.
- Theil wants a techno libertarian oligarchy with no regulations ala Blade Runner.
  Musk wants the rich to escape to Mars while destroying earth and dooming the poor's.
  Bezos wants to send the poor's into space along with heavy industry and turn earth into a rich person paradise ala Black Mirror "Fifteen Million Merits".
  Altman is just a shitty rich person in tech wasting precious resources to teach a computer to create porn. Becaue we all know that's what 99% of people do and will use AI for. He's also a prepper which means he's a selfish cunt.
  If I had to pick just one it would be Theil. I think the man is insidious while the rest are more in your face.
  Ranked choice would be Theil, Musk, Bezos then Altman.
  
  I love your descriptions for all of them. If you have some free time would you mind writing it for everyone in the brackets?
  
  I’m shocked that Sam Altman won out over SBF
- No matter who wins we all lose. That's kind of the point whenever these guys turn up.
  
  Well, and sadly, said.
- To make things slightly easier it's Musk v Thiel and Bezos v Altman.
  In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
  In the second matchup I would pick Bezos for the larger impact he has had on the world.
  
  I'm with you on the second, but I would have a really hard time with the first because Musk is more overtly a piece of shit, but Thiel has had so much influence over the years, including elevating Elon Musk to the position where he is today. I guess if it's the worst of 2023 and we're restricting it solely to what we know they've said and done in 2023, it would be Musk. But I think overall, it is probably Thiel just because there wouldn't be an Elon Musk anyone had heard about without Peter Thiel.
  
  In the first matchup, I would pick Musk over Thiel for being a bigger POS in general.
  But Musk's acquisition of Twitter is in itself subservient to Theil's overarching political goals. One has been in the limelight more, but the other has caused more harm overall.
  
  This is the 2023 matchup. You don’t consider Jordan’s performance at UNC when determining their championship status this year. Heck, despite the past damage done, i don’t think. Bezos, for his 2023 tech fuckery, should have made it out of the first round.
  By the same metric, Musk easily tops Thiel first 2023 and is the clear shoo-in as champion of the worst.
- Why do people hate Altman? Genuinely OOTL.
  
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  He's not really as bad as the other three, but he did take a nonprofit company and turn it into a multibillion dollar profit machine which has a massive carbon and fresh water footprint.
  
  His world coin project is one of the sketchiest. Paying people in poor countries to get scanned by this creepy orb thing? Odd.
  His sister has also vociferously accused him of molesting her for a period of time when she was 4 and he was 13.
- What did Thiel do to make the internet hate him as much as the other three?
  
  So, so, so many things.
  Let's start with him saying women getting the vote was bad for democracy and we can continue on from there.
  https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peter-thiel-women-democracy_n_5747079be4b03ede4413f6f5
  
  It's a full time job to answer completely, but from what I know he finances escape fantasies for the rich which they call seasteading. He calls it a libertarian ideal to create these new colonial city states, but what he means is liberty for his ilk from taxes, regulation and societal rules. Meanwhile his brainchild Palantir erodes the rights of the poor people who are left behind through surveillance, military technology and ICE funding. But this is all in line with his ideology, because apartheid "works" in South Africa according to Thiel

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.
- He isn't autistic. He simply said he is. Which makes him a giant piece of shit.
  
  According to his biographer, he’s wildly bipolar.
- At least Musk is so loud and obnoxious that it's easy to avoid him. Lex Luthor sits over there at Amazon quietly taking over the world and almost nobody gives him a second thought.
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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?
  http://www.10000yearclock.net/learnmore.html
- 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.

Too bad Zuckerberg is about to feast on our data now that Threads has federated
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  Information is cached on servers in the fediverse through connections. You can't just make an empty server and harvest all of the data. Now if you unleash millions of accounts on the Fediverse like threads is doing, then you have access to everything.

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.
- 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.

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.

No spez?
- He's small time. He's ruining one big-ish social platform. While people like Zuck are ruining many!
  
  Can't argue with that. But I have to admit that I miss reddit, mate. Hence my question.
- He’s an insignificant gnat.

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.
- 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.

How is it that every bracket isn't just "Elon Musk"?
- Thiel's worse, he just hasn't made a celebrity of himself

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

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.

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)

How is every bracket not Elon Musk?
- That's not how brackets work?

bezos

No unity ex ceo?
- He's a small time capitalist. These guys have society shaping power and wealth
  
  I agree with you, but in 2023 unity fuck up was one of the major events cause most developers used unity and still continue using it

the heck, how did altman get so far? not that hes an angel(by far no), but someone like SBF did way worse imo

The worst person in tech is a choice between a bunch of people who are working together to make things worse for everyone else?

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.
- Do you mind? We're trying to have a circlejerk here.

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

Of the four I'll take Bezos. Elon says controversial stuff but most of his businesses are legit. He owns Twitter now but he didn't create that monster. Altman opened up a can of worms with AI but I do believe he initially had some good intentions with it. I don't even know who Peter Thiel is. Bezos is just an evil corporate suit and Amazon will do anything for money.
- Thiel is associated with musk, and a pretty awful guy in his own right. The short version is he's a billionaire techno-fascist that funds political campaigns for people like Trump. Here's a video for more stuff about him if you're curious.
  
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- Bezos isn't even involved in Amazon anymore.
  
  He’s executive chair of the board of directors, what are you talking about?

Final match should have been between Zuckerfuk and incElon
- incElon
  The one thing he (unfortunately) isn't, is celibate, lmao.
  
  I think it's more about his sick mentality in general, and not about if he can eventually bribe a woman to be his living incubator.