• solrize@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If only there were email communications that all but prove the allegations.

    The allegations are presumably true but that is almost irrelevant. The question is what the world would be like in the opposite situation. The lessons of history suggest it would be pretty much the same world as the one that we got. A big enough pile of money in one place will never be left standing. For the article’s narrative to mean anything, it has to argue otherwise, and it makes no attempt at that.

    • sinedpick@awful.systems
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      7 months ago

      Ben Gomes is the counterfactual. I get the feeling you didn’t actually read anything.

      You have a lot of growing up to do.

    • Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems
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      7 months ago

      I know what you mean. Naming names is good imo but I was rather irked by the way the piece seemingly allows for a good, virtuous google under the leadership of benevolent engineers. It’s not how capitalism works, it’s certainly not how public companies work.

      What particularly confused me is I don’t recall google search being good in the years leading up to 2019? I assume it was somewhat better probably, but it was well on its way to utter shite.

      • jkrtn@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        It was certainly better, maybe even functional. It has been getting progressively worse up to where we are now. LLM blogspam has made it useless.