[HN Gopher] Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From 'Suicide' to 'Acti...
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Suchir Balaji Case Reopened: From 'Suicide' to 'Active
Investigation'
Author : starbucks12
Score : 113 points
Date : 2025-01-16 19:22 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.republicbiz.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.republicbiz.com)
| wasabi991011 wrote:
| The link is to a news aggregator (msn), which links to the main
| article from Republicbiz[1]. The hackernews guidelines suggest we
| should be using this link instead.
|
| [1] https://www.republicbiz.com/companies/suchir-balaji-case-
| reo...
| cwillu wrote:
| Email this comment to hn@ycombinator.com and they'll change it
| wasabi991011 wrote:
| Thanks, I've done that now.
| dang wrote:
| Changed from https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/suchir-
| balaji-case-reop.... Thanks!
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| Credit to the families for spending so much time and energy to
| get the appropriate attention on this case. However, I wonder if
| too much time has passed. If there was foul play, wouldn't the
| criminals involved have had enough time to clean up their tracks?
|
| > The SFPD and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner have
| withheld the full incident report and autopsy findings. The delay
| in releasing these documents, which typically must be completed
| within 90 days to maintain accreditation, has added to the
| controversy. Forty-three days after Balaji's death, the
| investigation remains unresolved.
| par wrote:
| I wouldn't be surprised if that was by design as well. There's
| a _lot_ of money at stake here.
| par wrote:
| Ahhh the old "suicide by 2 shots to the back of the head". Open
| and shut case as far as the coroner is concerned.
| mrcode007 wrote:
| Sometimes people fall out the window while installing a
| bathtub.
|
| https://www.npr.org/2017/03/25/521474650/when-a-russian-lawy...
| MisterTea wrote:
| Reminds me of the line from Analyze That where Jelly tells Dr
| Ben: "He stabbed himself in the back four times and threw
| himself off a bridge... very unfortunate"
| https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289848/characters/nm0899995
| pavinjoseph wrote:
| Just watched the mother's interview where she presented an
| independently conducted investigation report on Tucker's show.
| Doesn't appear remotely close to a suicide.
|
| Guy was hit in the head while brushing his teeth, sat in a
| sitting position and shot from above. Wonder how _they_ can get
| to so many peeps in positions of authority. Coroner, local PD,
| attorneys were all compromised.
| gkoberger wrote:
| It's possible a large amount of people in the SF government are
| complicit in a coverup of a company-initiated murder. Or,
| alternatively, a grieving mother is an unreliable narrator and
| cherry-picking facts while being egged on by a sensationalist,
| anti-SF talking head.
|
| I genuinely don't know. But I'd wait for more objective sources
| before I start to decide.
| phendrenad2 wrote:
| [delayed]
| mgraczyk wrote:
| The answer is that they didn't, and conspiracy theories like
| this are essentially always false. Try to imagine that it was a
| suicide, and then you'll realize that everything makes perfect
| sense.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Related:
|
| _OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment_
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42412718
|
| _Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI
| investigate death_
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42535057
| caesil wrote:
| Polymarket odds are pretty low on this.
| https://polymarket.com/event/suchir-balaji-foul-play-determi...
| https://polymarket.com/event/arrest-in-the-suchir-balaji-cas...
|
| The "evidence" seems pretty weak. A second autopsy that even the
| family's attorney admits is inconclusive... okay. Alleged
| "conflicts of interest" with the medical examiner... okay.
|
| Seems very likely this guy was just depressed and his depression
| ended in tragedy. The motivated reasoning here from Musk, his
| family, and many others revolves around wanting to prove OpenAI
| is bad because they want OpenAI to be a bad guy they can pin this
| onto.
|
| Not sure what OpenAI would possibly gain from this. It's not like
| LLMs being trained on pirated datasets is some sort of closely
| guarded secret.
| sss111 wrote:
| How long do you think we should wait before we replace the
| judiciary with polymarket ;)
| cududa wrote:
| 1-800-GAMBLER is available 24/7
| d3nj4l wrote:
| Maybe the hard time limit is making people apprehensive. Not
| that I'm on the yes side, but maybe the odds would be different
| if the timeline was longer.
| ks2048 wrote:
| I've seen this on a few very sketchy (to my eyes at least)
| websites or Twitter accounts. Can't they link to some more
| official statement? How do we know SFPD changed the status of
| this case? So much misinformation these days, everyone with
| credibility needs to link to their sources (or if personally told
| by an informant, etc, at least make that clear).
| sss111 wrote:
| what is this website, really like the site design
| gkoberger wrote:
| This is AI spam. I don't get how this made the front page.
|
| There's no sources, and it's from a no-name publication from
| India.
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