Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack • Hacker News Board

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by TurdF3rguson » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #79

TurdF3rguson wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that he would rather live in an underground bunker (than simply not let things get that out of hand) says a lot about his humanity.

> that he would rather live in an underground bunker He isn’t, never has and never will. I know some of the bunker people. They basically have them in the way you or I might have a fancy tool in the garage or piece of art. It’s a discussion piece for a different class of wealth.

That's a cute theory that it's just a conversation starter. Truth is, he knows he will need that bunker when the shit hits the fan. And it's already starting to.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by hgoel » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:29 AM UTC

glerk wrote: post #119

hgoel wrote: post #99

Crazy, as bad of a person as I think Altman is, he isn't even the worst AI CEO. But even the worst of them doesn't deserve this.

I've been seeing some version of "Sam Altman is the antichrist" on every platform in the last few weeks. I'm still trying to find concretely what makes this guy so bad compared to every executive out there. So far, all I could find is: - OpenAI made a deal with the Pentagon (fair) - OpenAI changed their business model from non-profit to for-profit (fair?) - Sexual assault allegations by his sister. Sam Altman denies…

For me, he's an awful person for the smarminess in the pentagon deal (the DIC is too entwined with American industry to bemoan making any deal at all), the business model change, the behavior described in that recent article, the 180 on how he and OpenAI consider AI ethics, and the way he's gone about overpromising.

It'd be one thing if he was just promising more than he could actually deliver, but he went further, making promises of buying up unrealistically large chunks of the global RAM supply, causing everyone else to suffer, with no remorse.

There's also WorldCoin. I don't think a decent person would continue to push such an awful, untrustworthy system. This is a supposedly privacy-focused project that several countries are investigating for privacy violations and has been found to be in violation of privacy laws in some of them.

It's almost as if he goes out of his way to do as much harm to the world as he thinks he can get away with while maintaining the facade of just doing business. I don't think he's the antichrist, I think Peter Thiel is the closest to deserving that description.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by TurdF3rguson » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:30 AM UTC

testaccount28 wrote: post #53

TurdF3rguson wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that he would rather live in an underground bunker (than simply not let things get that out of hand) says a lot about his humanity.

do you hold Altman solely responsible for everything on earth?

No, just the things his company does.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by kelseyfrog » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:34 AM UTC

infamouscow wrote: post #127

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.

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I'm all ears on what the non-violent resolution to the French Revolution some seem to think exists.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by ericjmorey » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:36 AM UTC

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.

Our current President disagrees and has pardoned political violence. Take it up with him.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by maplethorpe » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:37 AM UTC

I feel like Altman's PR team is dropping the ball. We somehow need to get the word out that AI tools will benefit all of humanity, not detract from it.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by nebula8804 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:38 AM UTC

ares623 wrote: post #35

esbranson wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Violence solves problems every day. Worse off is relative. I think you mean to qualify your statement.

Police employ violence all the time and I think we who are okay/well off all agree that they solve our problems every day. What us cushy engineers haven't realized yet is that the gradient for who are well off are sliding more and more towards one end. Sooner or later engineers will be on the wrong side of that gradient.

>What us cushy engineers haven't realized yet is that the gradient for who are well off are sliding more and more towards one end. Sooner or later engineers will be on the wrong side of that gradient.

Finally someone who said it. There was this quote I saw in the movie "Air"(about michael Jordan) about how people with true wealth only ever part with it not out of charity but out of greed. It takes someone or something truly special to force them to part with that money.

This whole era that we've lived through, where software engineers have amazing working conditions compared to blue collar workers and manage to pull ahead in society, helping to form a white collar elite class, is an aberration caused by the miracle of the microprocessor and Moore's Law. The elites saw the opportunity to obtain so much wealth from the lower classes(in the form of automating labor with computers) that they were forced to part with a bit of it, allowing some special people: software engineers like you and me to achieve what we consider a middle class life.

But sooner or later those same people will want that wealth back. They will continue to fight and find ways to take that wealth back: whether through H‑1B visas, "learn to code" initiatives to increase supply, or now AI. AI could very well crash and burn tomorrow but they will be back, and it will be an ongoing battle for the rest of our lives.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by BoredPositron » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

glerk wrote: post #119

hgoel wrote: post #99

Crazy, as bad of a person as I think Altman is, he isn't even the worst AI CEO. But even the worst of them doesn't deserve this.

I've been seeing some version of "Sam Altman is the antichrist" on every platform in the last few weeks. I'm still trying to find concretely what makes this guy so bad compared to every executive out there. So far, all I could find is: - OpenAI made a deal with the Pentagon (fair) - OpenAI changed their business model from non-profit to for-profit (fair?) - Sexual assault allegations by his sister. Sam Altman denies…

He fucked the RAM market. Not a biggie but I am salty.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by pharos92 » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC

maplethorpe wrote: post #136

I feel like Altman's PR team is dropping the ball. We somehow need to get the word out that AI tools will benefit all of humanity, not detract from it.

I don't think AI is benefiting humanity when you consider: - It's heavy use in military and surveillance engagements - The billions+ spent, yet no economic gains were noted - The pressure on white-collar jobs

The threat to AI far exceeds any benefits I can see.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by ratrace » Mon, Apr 13, 2026, 1:46 AM UTC

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #100

drivingmenuts wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it did solve a problem, it's possible it would be legal.

> If it did solve a problem, it's possible it would be legal. FL crafted a law to help safeguard someone who gets sued for running over a protestor. I think this illustrates how a law can protect problems rather than solving them.

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