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Eric Schmidt is, in his own words, an arms dealer now and is driving the R&D of autonomous A.I. weapons.
For the vast majority of non pacifists, that is not a bad thing.
Speak for yourself. I'm a non-pacifist, and I think "autonomous A.I. weapons" are a nightmare.
As you can see by the name of the thing, they are married
The age of plausibly buying a legacy is gone, so these vanity projects inspire more cynicism than anything else.
I am not understanding how this is bad. Other than a guy made a bunch of money and is spending it how he wants. Or is that the whole reason?
Through the systemic abuse and exploitation of countless individuals' privacy and autonomy. The context is everything.
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The planet will be just fine. It measures consequential time in many millions of years. You mean: support saving humanity.
I mean, yeah. When people way saving the planet they mean saving humanity. That's exactly it. A barren rock does no one no good. I don't get it why people hang onto this expression, it's as if you heard that George Carlin bit and now that's your anchor to reality.
As you can see by the name of the thing, they are married
Not sure why that's relevant. But if that's interesting then it's probably also relevant that it's an open marriage. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-13439603/eric-...
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-11-20/former-goo...
The level of negativity in these comments is surprising. We can certainly debate whether billionaires should exist at all, but given that they do, here’s one who’s putting his money towards advancing cutting edge science instead of buying a third mega yacht. I am strongly in favor.
And one yacht should be enough, especially if it is like this:
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/eric-schmidt-and-his-wi...
The level of negativity in these comments is surprising. We can certainly debate whether billionaires should exist at all, but given that they do, here’s one who’s putting his money towards advancing cutting edge science instead of buying a third mega yacht. I am strongly in favor.
Maybe not so surprising:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46512881 "65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform" (2026-01-06, 456 comments)