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Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by mbgerring »

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…

“Everyone does this,” and iirc recently a few people went to jail for it. So what’s happening with Altman?

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Post by hackable_sand »

throwanem wrote: post #121
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> What do you say to the people in Minneapolis demanding justice for the murder of Alex Pretti? Keep pushing your state investigators. Work to flip the House. And keep protesting and disrupting the browncoats. Alex Pretti did more to stop ICE than anyone e.g. killing an individual ICE agent would do.

Brown shirts. I believe "browncoats" refers to a now-extinct space opera fandom from a few decades ago.

Firefly?

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Post by minimaxir »

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.

Because people might have missed it last thread, here's dang's response to the discourse:

> I don't think I've ever seen a thread this bad on Hacker News. The number of commenters justifying violence, or saying they "don't condone violence" and then doing exactly that, is sickening and makes me want to find something else to do with my life—something as far away from this as I can get. I feel ashamed of this community.

> Edit: for anyone wondering (or hoping), no I'm not leaving. That was a momentary expression of dismay.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47728106

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Post by CaptWorld »

nsingh2 wrote: post #166
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.

This kind of sentiment, on its own, is hollow. Just more "violence bad", until the next round. There is growing anger and discontentment in a large part of the population, driven by inequality of wealth and power. Hopelessness and a lack of control over the future. Are the nodes of power willing to spread wealth and control more widely to stabilize the country? What are they willing to do to consolidate their power?…

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09797-z

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/10/ar...

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Post by maplethorpe »

kelipso wrote: post #154
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.

When they’re saying that most people will be unemployable in a few years and there is no plan to fix that…in a country where you go hungry and homeless without a job, people will get a bit restless.

Altman has made suggestions on how to fix this. I believe his main one is for AI to be subsidised so that it remains free for public use. The public could then use those free tokens to enrich themselves and offset any negative societal impacts.

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Post by mrdependable »

nickvec wrote: post #162

Altman needs to sell off that house and move to an anonymized address. I don’t see these attacks letting up any time soon. Two targeted attacks in three days is nuts.

More likely he will have a new contract with some private security firm.
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