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Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by rvnx »

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…

The jacuzzi "parties" with VCs are more than questionable

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Post by senordevnyc »

qmr wrote: post #257
wolvesechoes wrote: post #221

Somewhat funny to read all these holy, well-tamed, moral people condemning violence with most dumb, ungrounded "violence bad" that cannot even hold a second of scrutiny. Yes, violence shouldn't be the first resort, and when violence is unleashed innocent suffer as well, but there is a great difference between choosing not to use violence due to whatever consideration, and being so toothless and tamed that a sight of…

I agree. A lot of commenters who have probably had privileged lives and never faced a situation where violence was, in fact, the answer.

I think it’s the opposite: many of these keyboard warriors advocating for violence in 2026 in America have no fucking clue what they’re advocating for, or how stupid they sound.

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Post by [deleted] »

thefz wrote: post #254
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.

But ultimately that is what you get for fucking with the people for too long and assuming wealth/status/power is an armor. Source: the French revolution

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Post by senordevnyc »

mbgerring wrote: post #191
glerk wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

If the investors want to sue him, they can. But it’s nice that you’re worried about the billionaire class like this :)

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Post by senordevnyc »

mbgerring wrote: post #190
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.

idk, maybe Altman should stop giving interviews talking about how he’s going to get rich making everyone’s job obsolete. Just a thought! Any PR firms hiring?

He’s already rich, he doesn’t even own any stock in OpenAI, and the societal (and geopolitical) changes are coming from AI no matter what Sam Altman does. Should he just not talk about it?

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Post by senordevnyc »

simianwords wrote: post #238

Prediction: the general populace have internalised Marxism to such an extent that they think class warfare is the solution to everything. You get comments like "violence is bad but we would not have $x if not for violence" and then you get to justify violence for any pet cause they have. I expect to see more of this until it dies down because of how ridiculous the premise is.

Agreed, and also now any actions people don’t personally agree with that have a negative effect on someone (which is everything) can be labeled “structural violence”, so they can claim to have a moral justification for physical violence. It’s disgusting and breathtakingly stupid.

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Post by TiredOfLife »

s_trumpet wrote: post #269

I am seeing information about the attacker that show he was being influenced by Rationalist thinkers - he posted about “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. This information of course might be false, so take the words below with a grain of salt. I might be completely wrong. When an influential group in the Valley that has ties to many tech companies spends years speading rhetoric…

Yudkowsky followers already have killed at least six people.

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Post by croon »

remarkEon wrote: post #203
mbgerring wrote: post #182

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We invented something called “democracy” to fix this, and then we allowed enough wealth to accumulate that the wealthy just bought it and nerfed it. We went through a cycle like this once before in U.S. history, and the amount of violence it took to correct the overreach of organized money was not 0.

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Describing something does not equal condoning something. Whether GP is correct in assessment or no, they are describing a pattern they see, as an observer. I don't see a value judgment in their language unless I'm missing something.

Whether they are correct or not I'm not going to weigh in on, but I will make the claim that figuring out why something happens is the best way of preventing it from happening again.

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Post by lores »

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.

Why not? There are only two redresses against elites who don't abide by a social contract: the law & courts, and physical violence. The courts are much preferable, but legislators now serve those elites rather than the public, and the courts are impotent or unwilling to use what power remains with them. What's left but physical violence to either dissuade or punish?

The specific stigma against physical violence (and not against other types, even for cumulatively worse actions) strikes me as very self-serving, an instance of "the law forbids both rich and poor to sleep under a bridge." It's increasingly the only remedy available to everyday people, and the mad acceleration of government capture by elites in the last decade is making murder and rioting inevitable, at least as long as ordinary people still feel they should have some power.

Any sort of violence is bad, singling out physical violence as uniquely bad gives misbehaving elites impunity.

Re: Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack

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Post by [deleted] »

sph wrote: post #266
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.

People are stupid, but not stupid enough not to see right through the lie that AI will benefit all of humanity. This is exactly why they are throwing molotovs at his house.

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