I guess I look at this less as an “ah ha! They’re all cheating!” and more of a “were you guys even aware of what the benchmarks represented and how they checked them?”

Some of y’all desperately need to stop huffing social media farts.

Is this a threat, or…?

“Let our guy do whatever he wants or we’ll try to murder Congress and fuck up the economy and start some more wars”?

“Don’t you dare jail us for insurrection or we’ll insurrect even harder”?

What a stupid, silly post.

I think it likely is groundbreaking for a number of people (especially non-tech CTOs and VPs) who make decisions based on these benchmarks and who have never wondered what the scores are actually scoring.

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Sorry people aren't bending over backwards to help your AI start-up get VC funding, but maybe if y'all were a bit more honest, people wouldn't hate the infrastructure you're desperately trying to install in their backyard. Because it sure as shit isn't going in yours, is it?

Nah, he just doesn't care. Nothing he does will ever get people (en masse, onesie, twosies don't matter) to stop using Meta products.

People can/will complain about him forever, but shitty people will continue to help him build things, and shitty people will continue to use them.

I assume you think you're adding some kind of value to the discussion, here. But who knows, maybe you just really fucking love malaria.

I guess I don’t hate everyone else enough to agree with that.

This is only true for a handful of drugs that are basically OTC already (or that have OTC formulations). Additionally, telemedicine didn’t take advantage of drug advertising- that’s an odd assertion.

It’s really clear that some of you are really mad about something you don’t understand.

What? “Oxidative stress”? Oh come on, at least go full “seed oil” if we’re going to talk nonsense.

This is a deeply weird take. You think anyone ought to be able to buy, for instance, warfarin and freely take it without a doctor’s involvement? We should let parents self-diagnose diabetes and administer insulin without a prescription or discussion? We should just hope that patients heard their doctor say hydralazine and not hydroxyzine?

> As a side note more dangerous than any drug is stopping a prescription drug cold turkey.

Abject nonsense. It was very easy to stop my prescribed amoxicillin. It’s clear you don’t have any actual idea what “prescription drugs” are, in aggregate, and that should maybe inform your decision to have Big Opinions about them.

I’m curious what you mean by this. I’m not sure what you mean by “prescription system” specifically.

No, thanks, though. Mark Zuckerberg doesn't care if everyone on the planet thinks he's a dick. But as long as folks like you will go to the ends of the earth to make excuses for anyone who's complicit in the use of these tools, you're also to blame for the consequences of their use.

> Maybe things aren't as vanta-black and ultra-white as you're insisting.

Of course they're black and white, in exactly the same way, to use your example, that smoking cigarettes is bad.

There is no need whatsoever to use any of these products. It is completely possible to live your life without them. You just don't want to, because you'd rather things be a bit easier and you're willing to ignore the negative externalities.

Do you, dude. Just own it.

You've chosen to make these products your sole means and way of "connecting" with people because you, they or both are utterly and completely unwilling to even vaguely consider doing anything else. You want to doomscroll Instagram (we can swap "want" for "are addicted to" if you'd prefer - the broader point is the same). If you didn't, you'd stop.

Anyone using Meta products is a bad person, full stop. Are they Zuckerberg/Sandberg/Thiel/Musk bad? Of course not. But you don't get to absolve yourself of the clear and obvious consequences of your own choices just because they make you feel bad about yourself.

Until they have to take a meaningful vote. Because it’s bullshit.