"Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024)

Re:"Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024) by _wire_ on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:01AM (#48219740)

This is not a betrayal, it's a tiny study in Hegelian philosophy: the proposition is built from its negation.

The ideological aspect at play is that it was known and understood from the start that the temptation was there and a clearly defined as a means.

Someone telling you what they don't want to be may be telling you what they want to be.

Politics is rife with such seeming contradictions. The beauty of power is living beyond your own concerns.

> Don't anthropomorphize the grass cutter. All social structures...

What could be more anthropomorphic than "social structures"? Baffling comment.

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Re:"Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024) by Obscurity4340 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @08:03AM (#48221278)

This kinda stuff is exactly why I come keep coming to HN

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Re:"Don't Be Evil" Was a Lie from the Start (2024) by tliltocatl on Thursday May 21, 2026 @12:26PM (#48225345)

> What could be more anthropomorphic than "social structures"?

Group of humans doesn't behave like individual humans do. And we can't have same ethical expectations towards groups as we do towards individuals. As simple as that.

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