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[–] SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How many times did he shoot himself?

I mean there is a pattern to these things.
If Putin doesn't like you, you shoot yourself and then jump out of a building.
If the Clintons don't like you, you shoot yourself twice in the back of the head before driving your car off a cliff.
If you have dirt on powerful people, you hang yourself in prison.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

According to the police records, the man committed suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head.

edit: after reading your comment more carefully, you actually already mentioned that. oopsie.

[–] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What kind of info do you think they could have had? With boeing, it's probably something about corruption, pocketing state subsidy money that should have gone to actual projects, or something similar.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago

Kinda like when all those whistle-blowers in Russia accidently fall out the window.

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 17 points 6 days ago

Devs was a fun show.

Did he fall out a window?

OpenAI is a slimy company with slimy leadership that hoovers up people's work without permission and without punlishment, and turns scientific discoveries into a walled garden of overhyped spam generators.

Do they really need a whistleblower to tell us this?

[–] singletona@lemmy.world 216 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.....Yea I'm not buying it.

[–] ExtravagantEnzyme@lemm.ee 91 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yep, he definitely got suicided. It without question was a staged murder setup to lead investigators to deem it as such...

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago

And American cops are all too happy to take one less murder case if there’s any room to say it was a suicide. They’re not looking to add unsolved murders, especially ones that implicate he most powerful companies and men in the world.

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[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 145 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Balaji's parents claim to have evidence from their independent investigation, such as ballistic evidence from the private autopsy, which they claim shows a downwards bullet travel path that would be impossible by a self-administered gunshot. Balaji's parents also claim that a tuft of wig hair found at the scene that did not belong to Suchir represents unexplained evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji#Skepticism_and_calls_for_further_investigation

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 1 week ago

Also, the fact that he had the balls to blow the whistle seems to imply that he had no intention of ending his life before he could actually follow through.

This shit is just so obvious.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 124 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You've heard about a Boeing suicide, no we have new age OpenAI suicide.

People love mocking Russians when their "leaders" fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

As someone living in Russia, we don't do this window joke. We joke about sugar in Ryazan (aka Putin blows up houses), we joke about 146%, we joke about poisoned tea.

There's also been a story of a group of anarchists trying to build some kind of an organization and reproducing "Lord of the Flies" in process, resulting in murders of two of them and the rest trying to cover it up, it's still not certain that the one who came clear is in fact the murderer ; interesting that those murders were the only thing to interest law enforcement until a few years later, when the group as a whole formally not breaking any laws stopped being a hindrance. Point being - there are sometimes suspicions that groups like this are often intentionally created by FSB agents or whatever, to attract people likely to feel this way.

And when I was reading about where the window joke comes from, it's about a couple of scientists falling out of windows about the same time. I suppose with the defense-related (and in general strategic projects) corruption there could be some principled positions leading to murders covered up as suicides.

People love mocking Russians when their “leaders” fall out of windows, but where are these people when corpos kill plebs within US?

You assumed it was about being fair. People just like to shit on russia to distract from internal problems, it was never about the "people falling out of the window" thing.

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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 89 points 1 week ago (1 children)

America's version of fell out the window

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sir, this is a "Democracy"

[–] PlainSimpleGarak@lemmings.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is Democracy Manifest.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

We are definitely receiving limp penis.

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[–] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 71 points 1 week ago

Indeed, Balaji’s death — of a self-inflicted gunshot, per the San Francisco County Medical Examiner’s report — had become a focal point in debates over AI ethics, corporate accountability, and the dangers faced by whistleblowers in Silicon Valley. Whether these things become disentangled now remains to be seen.

Bet they don’t

[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can someone fill me in on the missing info here…

How is it that Zuck has been busted (basically) for training his ai on 80TB of pirated materials via torrents and it seems to be getting swept under the rug, yet this poor guy points out Sam Altman doing the same and he’s suicided?

Yeah, you just threatened a $600 billion a year industry and no one murdered you.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 56 points 1 week ago (10 children)

if you plan to whistleblow something, always plan it thoroughly so you cant be silenced by being murdered.

[–] Hazor@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

And make it abundantly clear to everyone that you're not suicidal. Record videos with date stamps. Send date stamped letters by mail to friends, with instructions to retain the letters indefinitely, and perhaps which are clearly marked "to be opened in the event of my death". The letters should say something along the lines of "I am not suicidal. I do not want to die. I am not going to kill myself under any circumstances. If I die, it was not by suicide. I want to live. I have ABC reasons to live. I have XYZ plans for the future." Etc.

Keep multiple copies of the information in multiple locations, and make sure multiple people know where a copy is. Ideally, have a dead-man's switch set up, or someone you trust to do it, to automatically send all the information to all the major news outlets if you do turn up dead, along with a statement akin to the letter outlined above to make it clear you were murdered.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Yeah, everyone knows that people who have the courage to blow the whistle when they see awful shit, are likely to kill themselves before they can share that information with anyone... Makes complete sense.

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[–] SilentKnightOwl@slrpnk.net 48 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Why does the news increasingly sound like the lore of Cyberpunk 2077?

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you accidentally a word.

[–] Captainautism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago

Oh oops! Good catch.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 37 points 1 week ago

Suuuuure it was.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Wow that must be pretty crazy to do this to yourself

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll throw a wild one out there. OpenAI didn't do it. Maybe Elon is in on this one. Makes OpenAI look shady after their recent rebuff of his shit and gives the media something else to chew on while he's dismantling our government with the cheeto emperor.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or is it exactly the reason Sam Altman was ready to line up for the inauguration with bribe in hand?

[–] Poppa_Mo@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Isn't it fucked that we're surrounded by so many rich villains that it could go either way?

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