Watching the behavior of our technological rulers answered questions that I never thought about. How do you get nda Army of small mothers? Is there anything more embarrassing than impersonating Benson Boone? (In addition, who is Benson Boone?) And now the latest: how long after the sovereign ruler of the repressive state murders one of your columns, should you conclude a contract with him? It turns out that the answer is just over six years.
In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, writer for Jeff Bezos Washington PostHe was killed and fragmented With the consent of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (better known as MBS) after Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to get documents for the upcoming marriage. His body has never been found. On May 13, Bezos “Amazon announced that he would cooperate with Humain, Mbs’ Ai Company to build the” AI Zone “in Saudi Arabia – And both companies will spend over $ 5 billion in this process.
Saudi money is Old news in the technology industry – The Public Investment Fund took many startups, directly or through intermediaries such as Softbank. Morally bankrupt Moneygrubbers such as Andreessen Horowitz I gained Saudi funds for some time. (Perhaps this is the real reason why they supported the preferred Saudis candidate?) This is not the first offer for Amazon. In March, Amazon undertook to invest $ 5 billion To build data centers in a country that tries to look futuristic.
In 2024, Saudi Arabia said that she wanted to build AI powered economy. There is a fancy website Project 2030Which, I think, is to divert attention from all oil money. This date is not an accident – Many forecasts say that then it will reach the peak of oil production and then fall. Regardless of when the actual peak occurs, the global change from crude oil threatens the richness of Saudi Arabia. That is why the country behaves like a startup of Dipshit.
Take the neom, settled as a city of the future, Vaporware software on an unspoiled scale, which also served as a “key tool” for MBS for the purpose of consolidating power, According to Ali, DoganaResearcher from Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin. Khashoggi’s murder was a blow to the project, because the luminaire, such as Altman himself from Opeli and former US energy secretary Ernest Moniz He suspended their commitment. Many companies publicly renounced Saudi money – at least for some time.
Does the freedom to murder count as one of the personal freedoms that Bezos claims to complain?
Neom disappears down the completely predictable path of the backrest. It is constantly delayed and reducedwhat makes sense because it is no longer a city future And a spectacular investment opportunity after construction – this is just another city. But, according to Saudi officials, we will not have to worry about it for another 50, or perhaps 100 years. In the meantime, contracts! Investment! Ai!
Listen, I do not expect ethics from Altman or any of his ilk. But for basic reasons for maintaining the morale of employees, I would hesitate to invest in a given state I literally murdered one of my contractors. And not only I did not murder him – but it was frail and then disappeared. The possibility that the state had only because Chashoggi wanted to marry. The murder is bad enough, but every detail is worse.
Recently, it seems that the Bezos disassembly Washington PostOne of the most important US journalistic institutions – erecting The British failure machine will be LewisKnown for his role in a British scandal with telephone hook, responsible. Last year Post For the first time since 1960, he did not support the candidate in the US presidential race, which caused over 200,000 canceled subscriptions. His stars run away in crowds. (Ann Telnaes, which was led to smoking . Post After killing a cartoon from Bezos, she recently won the Pulitzer award for her work. UPS!) Now, after all, a non -free attitude of a free press, limits people with people who murder journalists for saying uncomfortable things. But maybe we should see it when he banned the writers of the opposite of “freedom of speech and markets”. Does the freedom to murder count as one of the personal freedoms that Bezos claims to complain?
Everything is so without spins. I mean, we already know that MBS could hammer the phone, but I think it is water under the bridge. Or maybe not. Maybe MBS got something Really good in this hack. It is impossible to say whether it is motivated by a compromat or greed, I think. But regardless of the theme, we know one thing: it takes five years Photo with the tombstone of the murdered reporter To make billions of dollars for your killer.