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/CashFlowOrBust Feb 28 '25

Larry and Sergey notoriously have been quiet for years and now Sergey comes out of the woodwork and says this shit? Dude…seriously someone is pulling strings and has every one of the tech billionaires balls in a vice. There’s some weird ass shit going on, and I can’t be the only one who’s noticing.

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u/kerouak Mar 01 '25

Yeah I've been thinking something similar. Not just tech but various corpoations that traditionally just keep their mouths shut are now coming out and saying antagonistic things. Which is bad for business. Even if you think all your staff and customers are morons you don't come out and say it. You smile at them and tell them they're great. Then your ake all their money and laugh about it quietly behind closed doors.

It seems a lot of these businesses are showing their true colours to the world, and it's changing the sentiment among customers and potential staff. It's like they want everyone to hate them, but why?

Apple and Microsoft have remained pretty much silent, and Google and Musk seem to be saying the quiet part out loud. Banks are screaming their new found love for fossil fuels again.

When the tide rolls back on the current political climate (which always happens it doesn't matter which side you're on) people will remember all this stuff. And where's that gonna leave them? Social networks are coming out all "anti woke" but the people who support that represent like 30% of thier customer base at most.

Isn't it better for business to have happy staff, happy customers?

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u/Dependent_Ad_1270 Mar 01 '25

70%**

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u/kerouak Mar 01 '25

I was already being very generous saying 30%

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u/Dependent_Ad_1270 Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

100% of your echo chamber though. There’s a good chance the population outside of your bubble is a lot more than 30%. Maybe we split the difference at 50%?

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u/kerouak Mar 02 '25 edited Mar 02 '25

Twenty one perecent of the total population in USA voted for trump. That's 2 in ten. 🤷‍♂️

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u/campcosmos3 Mar 01 '25

Reminder: E stein didn't kill himself. 

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u/Taraih Mar 02 '25

We all know Einstein didnt kill himself

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u/campcosmos3 Mar 03 '25

Thank you, the 'i' and 'n' keys broke on my keyboard momentarily, with that earlier comment. 

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u/shokolokobangoshey Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

They’re seizing the moment. 2020-2022 scared them all (a possibility where labor has negotiating power). The orcs in charge will permanently decapitate labor and keep the “geniuses” in charge forever. Altered Carbon might become a documentary.

The next time you hear anyone venerating some techbro as a visionary, do something that this websites ToS finds objectionable. We got ourselves here by sucking these people’s dicks and now their boots are gonna be permanently planted on our necks

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u/Revolution4u Mar 01 '25

Sundar got that blackmail on them google boys

Nothing else explains why he hasnt been replaced yet and why he is so highly paid for being highly incompetent

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u/TheAverageWonder Mar 01 '25

The fall of Net Neutrality is a backdoor for Trump to end any of the tech companies in an instant.

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u/turningtop_5327 Mar 02 '25

Same, But the one pulling the string is GREED. They all have planned how much money they can make if they become pioneers in AI world and are not ready to let the community prosper at the same time. They think that the working class has no real rights so it’s time to exploit them to create AI and then lay them off.

I fear worse times are coming for a civilized society

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u/bigdipboy Mar 02 '25

Putting a fascist dictator in the White House changes the behavior of corporations. For the worse. This is what morons voted for.

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u/rn_journey Mar 01 '25

its all fake. an ai wrote this comment

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u/TwoToedSloths Mar 01 '25

Not that weird, Sergey rejoined Google like a year ago to help with AI R&D.