Comment by richardlblair
6 days ago
Jfc. People, a molitov cocktail was thrown as his home.
The rest of what is written doesn't matter. This isn't the moment for that conversation. That's his family. He has a fucking child.
Holy shit.
6 days ago
Jfc. People, a molitov cocktail was thrown as his home.
The rest of what is written doesn't matter. This isn't the moment for that conversation. That's his family. He has a fucking child.
Holy shit.
When the attack is being used to craft a very particular narrative unrelated to the attack, a lot of other things continue to matter, and yes they do matter right now. That is on the premise that this isn't some depraved PR stunt. And that is also ignoring how purposefully misleading most headlines as well as your comment are.
Better stop paying taxes then, cause your government, whatever it is, is probably ok with using your tax money to in some cases fund the killing of people who have families and children. Now, we can argue about the morality of killing those exact people as opposed to killing Sam Altman, but that's a different discussion. My point is that the real argument isn't over whether it's ok to kill people who have families and children, you're probably ok with that too, after all bin Laden had a family and children. The real argument is over which people who have families and children it is ok to kill.
This but unironically. Federal taxes should be protested, they're basically only spent on killing innocent Middle Eastern children at this point, all useful spending is negligible, especially after this administration.
Assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists had kids too. There was a thread here a few days ago letting people explore the deaths of children in Palestine. That thread was taken off the front page via flagging.
> The rest of what is written doesn't matter. This isn't the moment for that conversation
That's terrible that someone did that. I think that's wrong, and people that do that should be in prison.
But if the rest of what was written didn't matter, it wouldn't be written. He thought it was important enough to put it in. It's there to be read and discussed.
And I have to point out, we're not talking about a couple off the cuff remarks he may have rushed. About 95% of the post is about his ambitions for OpenAI. So pearl clutching that people are actually discussing the meat of the post in a tech forum reads performative.
Another comment lacking any compassion.
The man was reeling from what happened. He blames himself and his work. He sat and he wrote, naturally it came back to OpenAI. Should he of? Probably not. But it's understandable that he did.
We can meet the moment with some understanding and give the guy a little wiggle room.
Give him wiggle room? I didn't even say anything about him. I just said you were urging people to refrain from commenting on the post, which is true.
> The man was reeling from what happened. He blames himself and his work
Based on what? I don't particularly feel like he should blame himself, but I don't think he does. Can you point out where in this post he blames himself?
Their comment was perfectly compassionate. Why are you so eager to discount the rest of what Altman wrote?
This is a serious issue, and it's very possible that "wiggle room" is what got us into this situation. Altman would have been removed as CEO if the OpenAI board of directors got their way, the pushback is not limited to public extremism. His belief that AGI is a world-scale threat is entirely unqualified, and a fatalistic framework for marketing his product.
Both OpenAI and Sam Altman would probably be safer abandoning the apocalyptic tone towards their product line. They have no proof for their claims and only escalate the anti-tech sentiment that even Altman empathizes with in the concluding paragraph. It's a transgressive viral marketing tactic that does not elevate or improve humanity's understanding of AI.
No, when you’re the richest most powerful men in the world you don’t get compassion.
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He's a sociopath, that was just acting.
What about those three million people his systems helped murder? They had children. Half of them were children. Do those count? Where was your comment then?
If he treats his kid the same way he treated (raped) his little sister growing up, I feel extra bad for that child now.