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Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Re: Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying for iris scans

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Post by perihelions »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #9
perihelions wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice.

> let's not feed green-account trolls with words of calculated malice Let's "assume good faith" and "respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize" [1]. They may be a troll, or an idiot. Or they may be reflecting an increasingly-prevalent view that people should stick to their "own" territory, for various definitions of "own." (Whether this fuel an…

I sincerely believe "obvious troll" was the strongest possible interpretation of that comment.

edit: For with it's worth, "don't feed trolls" is also an HN guideline ("Don't feed egregious comments by replying").

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Post by Barrin92 »

RedditUsername wrote: post #2

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Rousseau, Emile:

"The essential thing is to be good to the people with whom one lives. Abroad, the Spartan was ambitious, avaricious. iniquitous. But disinterestedness, equity, and concord reigned within his walls. Distrust those cosmopolitans who go to great length in their books to discover duties they do not deign to fulfill around them. A philosopher loves the Tartars so as to be spared having to love his neighbors."

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Post by avtar »

nostradumbasp wrote: post #8

Concerning isn't even the word. Looks like those military contracts and all that government money has really heated things up for OpenAI's goals for human civilization.

So you don’t think Sam Altruistic Altman is really just in it for helping out the human race by creating “a global identity system through scanning people's irises”…?

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Post by Arainach »

RedditUsername wrote: post #2

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Others have called out how silly your comparison is, but Gates and Microsoft have contributed to plenty of local things. Bill and Melinda have given hundreds of millions to local universities [1], tens of millions to local schools [2], millions to local charities [3] and you'll find their names on the donor lists of plenty of local institutions (arts, etc.). You could have seen all of this with a single search for "Bill Gates Seattle donation" but instead came here to make malicious accusations.

[1]: https://globalhealth.washington.edu/news/2017/01/25/seattle-...

[2]: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-rel...

[3]: https://www.uwkc.org/donate/gates-endowment/

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Post by poncho_romero »

atonse wrote: post #4
RedditUsername wrote: post #2

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Through their work, the gates foundation has probably saved millions of lives, maybe tens of millions of lives, over the past 25 years. They’ve also been deeply involved with various education reforms in the US. They’re definitely active here.

Their work in education has often been a mixed bag, sometimes spending huge amounts of money to enact initiatives based on little or no empirical research that ultimately hurt the students who have the misfortune of being saved by yet another tech billionaire who believes skill in computer programming and business mean they’re an authority on everything.

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Post by luqtas »

avtar wrote: post #14
nostradumbasp wrote: post #8

Concerning isn't even the word. Looks like those military contracts and all that government money has really heated things up for OpenAI's goals for human civilization.

So you don’t think Sam Altruistic Altman is really just in it for helping out the human race by creating “a global identity system through scanning people's irises”…?

yes? all hardware they use is free of conflict minerals, all energy consumed on their servers is clean and has no impact on fauna e flora, copyright with all the possible training data they need is already solved in a bipartisan way AND their company pays no more than 7:1 ratio [0] for CEOs vs. bottom of chain workers /s

there's also the need for a global identity controlled by a private company of country X, as we are close to have no borders worldwide (continents drift soon will merge everything into a new Pangaea, gotta be prepared)

[0] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/kiatpongsan%20no...

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