Google never dropped that phrase btw - it’s still in the employee manual.
They just act like they dropped it
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paw@feddit.org 2 months ago
My understanding of the whole “being beneficial for humanity” is that:
- It’s kind of a meme that you need to have as a silicon valley start-up. Like Google’s niw dropped “don’t be evil”.
- If the founders and the investors, the share holder, get rich or richer, then this is already beneficial to humanity. In a net positive way similar to trickle-down-economics. At least thatvis what I think their line of thinking is.
Having said that, I think LLMs or Machine Learning can be used for useful things but I also think - as stated - the message " being beneficial for humanity" is hollow in a broader sense.
huginn@feddit.it 2 months ago
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Silicon Valley (the HBO show) was joking about this a decade ago. “Making the world a better place through highly scalable caching and consensus algorithms”, “I don’t want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do”, etc.
datavoid@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I watched this show with my brother, who then went on to create massive tech company. We fell out of touch, and when we finally reconnected he told me how much money he was worth within 5 minutes (presumably 8 figures by now), followed by how his only goal was to make the world a better place…
I hate corporations 🙂