.....Yea I'm not buying it.
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Yep, he definitely got suicided. It without question was a staged murder setup to lead investigators to deem it as such...
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.
Yep
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
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.
America's version of fell out the window
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
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, 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.
Same with Aaron Swartz.
if you plan to whistleblow something, always plan it thoroughly so you cant be silenced by being murdered.
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.
I'm not sure it's in those exact terms, but I think there were a few cases with high levels of preparation. Ended up being ruled as suicides anyway by the courts and the media. Not saying they'll always win, though. But their idealogical power is not to underestimate.
A minister in my country was deemed to have committed suicide by drowning in a 50cm body of water. Strangely enough, all witnesses have committed suicide too just before being heard by the courts.
And it worked. Everybody know it wasn't a suicide, but it changes nothing for those responsible of the murder.
Didn't the boeing guy pretty explicitly state that he was not suicidal to family and friends right before he died?
Yes he did
They think we are so fucking stupid, don't they?
They don't care. If there is no immediate and severe punishment for it then it doesn't matter if we 'know.' In 10 years the only line will be the official one and we'll just look like conspiracy theorists with half remembered facts. They dont think you're stupid, they know they'll get aways with it and they don't think about you at all.
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The point is like Russian point. It isn't just to silence you so trouble goes away that the whistle-blower was involved with. It's to silence other potential whistle-blowers. It's too send a message.
Yeah I read somewhere that, in Russian culture, the more absurd the cover up story the more insulting it is meant to be for the victim.
Like if someone "shot themselves 3 times in the back of the head then fell out of a window". Maybe Epstein fits into that too
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It's a great idea, though in practice I fear you'd seem like Snowden and everyone would eventually coalesce around the idea that you're a traitor because you didn't get assassinated or put into a dark hole to be forgotten.
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Why does the news increasingly sound like the lore of Cyberpunk 2077?
...but without the fucking cool stuff.
Give it 52 years and we'll have more cool stuff, plus 300% more ads.
We got some of it, its just that killer drones and SI aren't as cool on this side of the screen, and the cyberware is only for rich people (though there is a growing 3D printed movement for amputees) That said with some craft skills we can at least make the cool punk armor and kneepads and have it be reasonably functional, even deploy a blade if you're ambitious, though more predator than mantis in that regard.
Be the change you want to see.
Sigh, it really does.
I think you accidentally a word.
Oh oops! Good catch.
Suuuuure it was.
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.
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.
Wow that must be pretty crazy to do this to yourself
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.
Or is it exactly the reason Sam Altman was ready to line up for the inauguration with bribe in hand?
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Kinda like when all those whistle-blowers in Russia accidently fall out the window.
Devs was a fun show.
Bullshit
Suicided.
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?
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