That’s awesome. I worked for this one startup a long time ago where the CEO would call a company-wide meeting every other month to announce a new achievement award and then promptly award it to his co-founder. You can’t make this kind of shit up, it’s comedy gold. It was also great for morale every time we saw the cofounder get the use of the CEO’s Ferrari or that $25k bonus check. We were always so excited for him!
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki Gets 'Freedom Expression' Award Sponsored by YouTube
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#92Let this be a lesson to all: intelligence does not in any way correlate with self awareness. It's likely that 'smart' people are just as likely to be unaware of their own follies or inabilities, I would argue, maybe more so as a lot of smart people tend to be 'inwardly focused' and less concerned about their direct environment. This kind of thing happens all the time among Exec. level, but normally we'd expect it fro…
> but normally we'd expect it from Ford CEO, not Google types.
Why? How do you see a distinction there?
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#93Reminds me of when the president of a warring nation once won the Nobel Peace Prize.
They could just rename it the War Prize. Definitely the most controversial of the Nobels: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nobel-prize-peace/war-and...
Nobel himself owned Bofors, a manufacturer of artillery and other weapons of war.
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#94It's always bad form to accept an award from your own company when you are CEO. You should be giving out the awards.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm currently tickling my brain with the hypothesis that this is a next-level move by her team, to get her to publicly "emphasize the importance of free speech and the role that YouTube plays in protecting it", so that it will become more inconvenient for her (or for the rest of Youtube) to do more things that interfere with free speech. Analogize this to publicly praising a corrupt general for doing or planning some…
Well that won't work... former President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace prize but he went on to involve the United States in additional foreign wars and went ham with drone strikes.
Perfect example. He also took programs to the next level — eg first president to authorize the US to assassinate its own citizens!
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#97upside down world. rewarding evil as if it is good.
not surprised in the slightest. not sure why anyone here is..
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#98Youtube's algo gaslighted me about the suicide of a childhood friend, by picking content that mocked his life after I learned the bad news. I had already curated my feed to two specific science topics, and the top rec was a blaring million IQ evil AI punching me in the gut with an Iron Fist. I've never been the same since. Florence Nightingale effect. People such as Wojcicki have poor moral compasses, or they aren't…
I want to hear more about this.
A childhood friend committed suicide, I found out, then the next day or so my science-curated youtube feed suddenly showed me a totally out of context video in the top spot with content that mocked my friend's life.
It appeared as though google/youtube algos used the data point about my friend's suicide to perform a psychological experiment on me. At the least, this was amoral, but appeared malicious to me. I fail to see how it is ever appropriate to customize content based on the suicide of a friend.
I would like to ask anyone here on hn who has the appropriate authority at Google to briefly investigate this incident: Why did google/youtube use the suicide of a childhood friend as a data point for personalizing content, what was the intention, and whether this has changed. Or, perhaps it would help to have an explanation as to why my understanding of this incident is incorrect.
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#99You have to wonder if everyone else offered the prize rejected it.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always think about Richard Feynmans take on awards and honors whenever these things get brought up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fes-kqRDRoY
I wonder if there is a correlation between being super good and having a disdain for awards or not.
Probably akin to how if you are truly competent you don't need to oversell yourself.
The smartest PhDs I've ever met in Silicon Valley NEVER TOLD ANYONE they had PhDs. The dumbest ones ALWAYS led with "I'm a PhD" or "call me doctor"!