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Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by d3ff »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12
echelon wrote: post #5

I have a few predictions for this year: 1. Violent attacks against AI CEOs, researchers, and engineers is going to begin. This is due to widespread negative press that AI receives and as well as a pervasive feeling of economic uncertainty and doom in the population. Some of this being caused by the current administration's leadership, but much of it attributed to AI taking jobs and destroying opportunity. 2. Violent…

If violent attacks start metastasizing, it legitimately justifies a police crackdown. Most of the population will be for that. The pro-Palestinian activists set their cause back a year by overplaying their hands in Columbia at the start of the war. If we want to ensure zero AI legislation for the next 2 years, I couldn’t think of a better way to ensure that than to start potting randos in the streets.

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Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

Avicebron wrote: post #14

Violence won't solve anything, everyone is worse off.

> Violence won't solve anything

Violence can solve problems. This kind of violence is stupid, counterproductive and immoral.

Strategically deploying violence takes time, resources and discipline. Wanking off with a gun does not.

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Post by drekipus »

poszlem wrote: post #15
granzymes wrote: post #10

Political violence is not acceptable in a democracy. Full stop, no "but". That's all that needs to be said on this thread.

I agree. Is the US still a democracy, or already an oligarchy?

This is the point.

You can't call yourself a democracy just because we can change the colour of the same bus every 3 to 4 years

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

abcde666777 wrote: post #20

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> it's hard to sympathize with someone like Altman

The thing about rights is you believe in them universally or you don’t believe in them at all. If we have a right to life, sympathy isn’t relevant. Awful people can be awful, but if we start compromising their rights then we deface all of our freedoms and security.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by ropetin »

avaer wrote: post #7

In case someone reading this is thinking similar thoughts: there's no version of reality where doing this will solve any problem. Don't.

While I 100% do not support violence against Sam Altman, or anyone else for that matter, what are people without billions of dollars and without the ear of the president supposed to do to affect change in this modern, post-capitalist hellscape? And I am genuinely interested in ideas that people think will work, not just trying to be combative.
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