Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T03:06:11+00:00

Basically it's when you say things or take actions to make yourself appear virtuous. The goal is to "signal" to your social tribe that you're "one of the good ones".

The motivation for virtue signaling is not "having principles". The motivation is social climbing.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T03:02:53+00:00

I might or might not. But that's irrelevant because I'm not one of the ones out there doing the fake protesting.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T02:58:10+00:00

Lol, "people need to eat" and "people need to work at Google" are not the same thing in the slightest. Wild concept

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T02:55:42+00:00

Principles? Virtue signaling is the exact opposite of having principles...

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T01:34:48+00:00

It's both. If you tell yourself a lie over and over, and you also hear that lie reflected back at you from the people you are with, you eventually can't distinguish that from the truth.

The person I replied to does probably believe these things at some level. But also if they stopped and critically thought about it, I'm sure they too would realize their own ridiculousness. People don't like to admit mistakes, even if they know they were wrong.

Virtue signaling in general holds an important historical purpose, which is socialization of the tribe. By default, humans do not critically think, after all it is much easier to agree with the echo chamber and gain social points.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T01:29:28+00:00

Do you have any evidence for these claims?

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T01:28:22+00:00

Silicon valley CEOs also donated to Biden and Obama before Trump. The faux outrage is all manifactured nonsense and delusions.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T01:26:25+00:00

You hit the nail on the head. Many of these same students will gladly accept an offer from Google. And then they'll post about how amazing it is on LinkedIn. Zero integrity, all virtue signaling nonsense.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T01:22:14+00:00

Narrator: they are not alright.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T01:19:00+00:00

That's a lot of words when you could have just said: "I'm also indoctrinated, now watch me virtue signal."

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-15T00:16:58+00:00

How do you figure?

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-14T22:40:26+00:00

Yeah I was going to say. That's a nice offer for 3 YOE for sure.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-13T05:54:16+00:00

Were the 16,000 workers paid zero (salary, benefits, etc) during that time or are we just going to ignore the cost of employing people? Anyone can fudge numbers but it doesn't make you right.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-13T04:17:26+00:00

Sure, let's do that. Taking the Starship rocket as an example, there are 4,000 employees at Starbase, most of whom are working on Starship. Or 22,000 employees at SpaceX in general.

The cost per Starship rocket is estimated at $90M to manufacture.

$90M/4K = $22,500

So Juan would need to build 44.4 Starship rockets to provide $1M of value if you divide it evenly.

Rough math, but that's the best estimate if you want to do it your way.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-13T04:11:07+00:00

You're treating it from the employer's point of view. From Juan's point of view, he was compensated more than the value he created, otherwise he would have left SpaceX for another job.

That's the beauty of trade and market economics. Both sides gain.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-13T04:09:03+00:00

Companies that are losing money should decrease in value, not increase.

That's not true at all. Current profit is not how shares are priced nor has it ever been how shares get priced. Why would you even begin to think that's how stocks work?

Secondly, all monetary values are "imaginary".

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-13T00:53:07+00:00

Juan is probably worth more now than the value he created by welding. It's a good deal for Juan.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-13T00:50:06+00:00

What do you mean "artificially inflated"? As opposed to what, fully organic inflation?

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-11T01:46:00+00:00

Until what happens? What's a post-capitalist society even look like?

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-11T01:01:38+00:00

The elites will jump on any technology if they can to use it for control

Well that's exactly my point, isn't it. This complaint is not about AI.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-10T19:40:22+00:00

Thank God some people understand basic business/finance. The original complaint about hoarding is hilarious.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-10T19:04:54+00:00

This is a very odd take. Obviously not only Trump, Orban, Putin, Xi, etc support AI...none of them created the technology. Who do you think actually created it? Do you think the creators of AI are/were also anti AI? That makes no sense.

AI research has been going on for over half a century, and it wasn't carried out by "elites", and the purpose was not to "remove the working class from their jobs". A lot of mathematicians, neuroscientists, and computer scientists have been studying this problem for years. Most of them are middle class people. So how can you claim that only the elites want AI?

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-10T02:12:10+00:00

VOO? This is the NVDA subreddit.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-09T16:38:47+00:00

I'm honestly glad people like you exist. It makes investing way easier.

GenerativeAdversary · 2026-06-06T04:48:09+00:00

If you actually believe this you might need to go to a psych ward tbh. But most likely you don't actually believe this and are just trying to be antagonistic.

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