r/wallstreetbets • u/waIIstr33tb3ts • Feb 28 '25

News Google's Sergey Brin Says Engineers Should Work 60-Hour Weeks in Office to Build AI That Could Replace Them

https://gizmodo.com/googles-sergey-brin-says-engineers-should-work-60-hour-weeks-in-office-to-build-ai-that-could-replace-them-2000570025
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u/Actual__Wizard Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

The Google guys are legitimately crooks too... You gotta dig deep to find their real story, but the short version is that they're a bunch of hustlers. They're not "nice guys" dude. That's not what happened... They created some PR BS where they lied to people about not being evil while they flat out ripped people off.

The mantra was "don't be evil" while at the same time you could Google pirated material from any major software company with 1 search query in Google. So, they were 100% evil the entire time.

So, it was "don't be evil, just let our users steal from our competitors." Wow, 25 years later, their competitors are almost all gone. I wonder how that happened? Oh, it's because they were being evil the whole time...

People absolutely need to stop falling for clear and obvious PR stunts and tricks.

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u/Nastrod Feb 28 '25

Brin usually keeps super quiet compared to other billionaires, but he's always creeped me out for some reason.

Sidenote, I remember taking a class from Udacity in like 2012 or something, where Sergey Brin did some guest lessons. He looked high as fuck the entire time.

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u/Actual__Wizard Feb 28 '25 edited Feb 28 '25

Brin usually keeps super quiet compared to other billionaires, but he's always creeped me out for some reason.

I think he got into minor trouble over something he said on the podcast "This week in startups." I can't find the episode for the life of me, but when I was listening to it, I couldn't believe my ears. I just so incredibly shocked that there was a business leader saying that kind of stuff. Just basically acting like a complete thug... I'm pretty sure he was talking about how he used to rip people off with penny stocks or something, as if him explaining how he used to rip people off was a "credibility booster" or something...

It was as if he was trying to suggest "Yeah man, I rip people off all the time, that's why I started Google."

I was just sitting there listening to it with my mouth wide open in total shock... As I was thinking: "Oh, it's a bunch of thugs, I see..."

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u/TlMBO Mar 02 '25

Google did not lead to other companies disappearing because they didn't filter piracy from their search results. That's a ridiculous leap. Also the lack of filtering doesn't strike as particularly evil.

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u/Actual__Wizard Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Google has put well over a million businesses under. You don't seem to understand the concept that theft is not a good thing. That company should have been bankrupted by lawsuits back in the year 2000.

It's another one of those companies that acts like they do nothing wrong while their poop just stinks worse and worse... Lately the stench is 100% totally insufferable... Now it's "How much robot plagiarized AI slop do you want rammed in your face? Hey, how much do you want to pay for click fraud? Hey lets use call centers in India to rip our customers off by giving them bad advice about their advertising campaign."

So cool, they stold people's stuff, then used it to cause even more financial damage to them. They're never going stop abusing people and the system... It's totally evil and they're completely spaced out mentally.

The company is going to go bankrupt dude... They're ultra far outside of the range of what their customers expect... It's becoming a scamtech company like Meta... They think they're big brains that can do nothing wrong as they blindly walk off a cliff...

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u/TlMBO Mar 02 '25

I subscribe to the Google is evil idea, but this is an Occam's Razor situation. Google put tons of businesses under because they 1. bought out competitors, and 2. offered superior and free products, sometimes with the help of the acquired competitors.

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u/Actual__Wizard Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Let's keep going so you understand how it really works with Google:

3- they scammed millions of businesses by selling them fraudulent advertising. 4- they ripped people's stuff off. 5-they built a toxic moat to prevent scientific discoveries from being found by scientists, which has massively slowed scientific progress in multiple areas. 6-they created a toxic environment for small businesses and small publishers. 7-they utilize call centers to trick their own customers into basically scamming themselves by turning on settings that absolutely should not be turned on under any circumstances for that type of campaign.

I can sit here for an hour dude... How much evil do you want to hear about? You want me to get into the EU court decisions where Google was flat out caught ripping off their customers with their secret algos that manipulated the advertising market?

You want me to get into the Snowden stuff where it was revealed that they're sending all of your personal data straight to the CIA?

The company isn't going to be around in 10 years. It's going to get cut up into little pieces, be rebranded, repackaged, and nobody is going to remember or care about the company Alphabet and their totally evil schemes.

They know how the boom and bust cycle works, they absolutely do not care if they fade away into obscurity like AOL did because they already made 100x more money. The leadership is so high on drugs that they don't know where reality is anymore anyways.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

And their maps were used to kill Palestinian kids too