• Etterra@discuss.online
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      Wrong country. Drugs are easy to get here, for example, especially in silicon valley. Not to mention the easiest cause of being suicided, high caliber lead poisoning.

      That said, it’s always possible (though less likely) that he couldn’t live with himself, having helped create the current worst technology around.

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      I was talking to my cousin (journalist) a while ago and she told me how she was supposed to interview a whistleblower for Anaheim PD. I snarkily commented something like, “yeah but let me guess he shot himself twice in the back of the head” and she alarmingly said “…yeah, how did you know?”

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    You gotta set up a dead man’s switch (not literal give the evidence to a lawyer or do a deposition or whatever). Do that before you blow the whistle and announce that at the same time.

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      In some countries some people prefer to suicide themselves alone in their rooms without warning. In other countries, they prefer to suicide themselves by shooting themselves multiple times in the back and/or throwing themselves off of multiple storey buildings. Who can say? It’s not like countries led by psychopaths who put profit margins above society, including people’s lives, would ever kill people to defend their bottom line.

      There’s two barriers to justice in today’s world: The first one is having enough money to hire lawyers. The second one is having enough money to hire bodyguards.

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    So when does the all out manhunt with every possible available resource deployed to find the killer begin?

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      Whistleblowers are automatically overcome with grief at disappointing the high and mighty Job Creators and shoot themselves in the back of the head twice in despair.

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          Dude that’s not fucking fair.

          I wanna see you try to look for evidence with all that bribery and police gang money obscuring your vision and see if you do any better.

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          Yeah, the victim likely shot himself three times and engraved words on every casing. /sarcasm

          Seriously, what kind of evidence are you expecting to find?

          EDIT: To be clear this is not an ironic question, if we’re accusing the police of willful ignorance we should at least present a decent argument. What do we look for?

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    Oh, I see how it is. They keep killing and killing, but we hit ONE CEO and shit hits the fan. Alright, then.

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    Its crazy how fast you die once you blow that whistle. All out class war on one side.

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    Two bullets back of the head?

    A Boeing suicide…

    You know we all love a good laugh about russians falling out from a window but when we will start asking questions why whistle blowers “dying” is a normal occurrence in the US.

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      A Boeing suicide…

      A crass nickname for the CIA Prize for Journalism if I ever saw one.

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    So here’s what I think happened:

    Scenario One: Balaji killed himself. Seeing the evil that had been wrought, he was wracked with guilt over his part in building it, and checked out. Don’t worry, he’s not too far ahead of the rest of us.

    Scenario Two: Balaji knew too much, and still had the means to halt the project, or worse, allow it to get captured by other interests, and so he had be silenced. A professional made sure it didn’t look like foul play.

    Scenario Three: He was hit like in S2 but the hired gun was through remote channels, the money sent to them anonymously. Balaji discovered the project had escaped its constraints via an esoteric process that allowed it access not merely past firewalls, but was able to follow instructions outside its authorized objectives. Balaji sought to tell the other developers, but it was hard to explain before communications were terminated.

    Mind you, I write thrillers, so I may be biased.

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    Bill Burr has this take that corporations are the mobsters of yore, they just kneecap or whack people in different ways because the law is on their side now. Until it’s not.

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    Conservative conspiracy theories: “HA! What idiots!”

    Lemmy conspiracy theories: “HA! Told ya!”

    Maybe ask some fucking questions?!

    after receiving a call asking officers to check on his well-being

    Who called and why? This seems extraordinarily important.

    “currently, no evidence of foul play.”

    OK. Let’s see what comes out.

    The MO here seems to be pressuring people in to suicide. It’s been done. So…? What do we know along those lines?

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      SWAT doesn’t need to know who called in order to go full Rambo on random citizens. Rich people pull the strings. They don’t believe in accountability.

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        They do not send in SWAT for wellness checks

        In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions.

        Unless stuff starts happening to those people, or there is some detail I missed in the article, it is much more plausible that this was suicide than some corporate hit, let alone one carried out using police violence? Is that what you were implying?

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        That’s a vector of attack and it has been exploited by randos.

        I think if it wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t know that it can be that easy to call in swat someone, these people do no diligence, just go in hot.

        This is way to easy to socially engineer, government must know this and yet it still happens.