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Unless you believe Google is controlled on the micro-level by some all-knowing AI with the single goal of profit seeking, and it can ultimately align every one of their goals to profit, that is just an overly naive take. People/bureaucracy is faulty, even at being evil.


>Unless you believe Google is controlled on the micro-level by some all-knowing AI with the single goal of profit seeking, and it can ultimately align every one of their goals to profit, that is just an overly naive take.

Yes, because a company can be a negative actor driven by profit-seeking only if it is "controlled on the micro-level by some all-knowing AI with the single goal of profit seeking, and it can ultimately align every one of their goals to profit".

To think otherwise would be naive /s

Thanks for the nuance!




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