Dozens of Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO's speech
3h 19m ago by lemmy.today/u/sanitation in technology from www.bbc.com
Dozens
the local news outlet SFGate estimated it was as many as 200
No mention of how many people are graduating
Reee it's difficult to estimate how big of a deal this was if the total number of participants isn't mentioned.
200 is over sixteen dozens
That's almost dozens of dozens.
It's more than one and one third dozen dozens.
1.38̄*dozen^2
What’s that in Baker’s dozens?
Their ego is disgusting, every time they open their mouths they are met with disdain and they still don't get it.
Poor people who act like that tend to suffer social consequences. Like getting their asses kicked.
That sort of thing doesn't stop poor people from saying shit like that, but it does teach them to be careful about it. Some of them.
They don't need to. They're still making more each year than you or I will make in our entire lives.
Pichai [...]
"It is the last two letters of my last name, after all."
So, abbreviations start from the rear end now?
And then some of those that walked out will work for Google also due to job market shit fuckery. What a time to be alive
yes but will any of them take a actual step in the right direction like degoogling and/or closing their Meta or Xitter accounts?
They literally walked out of their Standford graduation. I'm sure they have the willpower to stop using those platforms.
Why do you feel the need to be smug toward people that obviously share the same viewpoint as you?
Even if they didn't, this was inestimably more impactful than a couple hundred people degoogling.
Not really. I mean, other than the headline, what consequences are stemming from this?
People here seem to think a good burn is going to stop these monsters.
I mean we can all say we hate AI but while OpenAI continues to have a billion active monthly users, they will never stop
BTW I got that number from an article today saying OpenAI was "in trouble" because they are DOWN to that number as apparently Gemini is stealing all the users...
No huge consequences, you're right. Probably annoyed the CEO. But 200 people degoogling? Even people running metrics every day at Google wouldn't notice. It would be great if everyone degoogled, but until that trend starts getting much more traction than it has now it will have no measurable impact, and making more people think about how Google is evil is the only way to increase that traction.
But 200 people degoogling?
Well that was not my point... my point is that if a significant number of the people that allegedly hate AI/Google/BigCorpo were to actively get rid of their products, there would be an impact.
You are right that 200 is nothing but the real problem, IMO, is that people LOVE the show but not the action. I read hundreds of posts everywhere about how we must fight yet nobody seems to want to get off their chairs
These people literally got off their chairs during their college graduation from a prestigious university to protest the shit Google is doing!
Each person who did that made a bigger impact, and probably a bigger sacrifice, than a person who degoogled. That was my point.
Ultimately we need people to degoogle, but until way more people pay attention to why they should, it will remain a niche thing.
How do you know they haven't already?
I don't, which is why I posted my comment as a question.
I can tell you I doubt it since I lost track of how many people (here for example) complain bitterly about the big tech companies and still hold active accounts in all of them seemingly unable to stop giving those companies "they hate" all the power they want
Well, it's highly unlikely that any of them are here, so I don't know why you're asking us then.