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Re:Ask HN: Would you go work for Facebook ("Meta")? by meiraleal on Thursday July 11, 2024 @11:09AM (#40937567)
Not really (I really like most if not all of your comments, this is the first time I recall disagreeing).

Working for a company that brings such a net negative to society is not a matter of "most corporations are evil at some level".

Facebook/Instagram/Meta (and Google) have such a negative influence in the minds of billions of people that honestly, they both already rival or might surpass how big and influential Nazi Germany ever was.

If Meta was a company like others, this kind of Ask HN wouldn't be so common.

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Re:Ask HN: Would you go work for Facebook ("Meta")? by drstewart on Thursday July 11, 2024 @12:28PM (#40938258)
That's funny, because I think the same about companies that work on AI, which will be 10x worse than social media ever was.

So, what do you do?

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Re:Ask HN: Would you go work for Facebook ("Meta")? by meiraleal on Thursday July 11, 2024 @01:09PM (#40938607)
I will hope for you to put up a fight against them, then.

I don't think a hypothetical bigger evil in the future is worse than current big evil tho and what's going to come from AI is still up to grab, at least much more than social media or search.

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