Eric Schmidt: The Future of War Has Come in Ukraine: Drone Swarms

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Am I the only one who Eric Schmidt rubs the wrong way?

The Google name lends him a certain cachet and credibility, but after reading the book "The Age of AI" he did with Kissinger, I really see him now as just a rich guy who likes to talk about many things, but doesn't really offer any real insight or anything new.

Sort of like a middle manager who thinks he's brilliant...

Poplar was pretty cool: https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/poplar/doc/Mor...

(he and Wadler implemented it in Mesa, so he's got way more technical chops than the average "just a rich guy": https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/poplar/src/Pop... ; he'd count as a "hacker" IMO)

"Just a rich guy" was probably a little too harsh on my part.

The insights he offer do not merit the attention they receive was more the message that I was trying to get across.

He is just another mindless robot, sent on rounds on behalf of corporate wonderland, to tell govts and regulators what to think. Basically a lobbyist. From what he chooses to talk about, you can see how totally vacuous corporate wonderland actually is.

Schmidt is just the luckiest man in the world. He used to be technical once upon a time, then failed his way (Novell, Sun) into the Goog, where he was most famous for trying to silence people talking about his swinging whilst simultaneously declaring, "If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

P.S. Also notable for kissing Steve Jobs ass by enabling Jobs' illegal no-hire scheme.

https://archive.is/pgcpC

How long before these practiced swarms come for the rest of us?

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