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Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman

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Post by fuy »

wavemode wrote: post #453
culi wrote: post #414

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I think more and more Americans have what C. Wright Mills called the "sociological imagination". We pour tons of effort into punishing visceral, direct violence like a stabbing or shooting. But if white collar crime is being committed that leads to the death of hundreds of thousands of people, it's rare that anyone sees jail time. Maybe you could argue the decisions of Brian Thompson made only account for maybe 10% o…

What "white collar crime" was Brian Thompson guilty of? As I understand it, he was merely the CEO of an insurance company. Nobody likes how insurance companies do business, but that doesn't make it "crime".

There's been many examples of societies where killing or abusing people was legal etc. Law is not math, it can be (and often is) wrong; in many cases a law is just a way for ruling class to make money/keep power etc. It's completely OK to protest laws, and it may be completely reasonable to consider someone a criminal even if they haven't broken any laws.

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Post by bdangubic »

UncleMeat wrote: post #637
krapp wrote: post #269

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Violence by the state is legal. Violence otherwise tends not to be.

Corporations that pollute our air and water without penalty do violence against us.

so basically every manufacturing corporation in existence?

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Post by yabutlivnWoods »

strongpigeon wrote: post #36

It is a bit scary how people seem to genuinely be OK with violence (see this reddit thread [0]). Is just me or does it feel like the overall "temperature" has gone up. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1shugf8/firebomb_t...

Your way of life is dependent on slave labor and military conquest.

Your only noticing the "temperature" going up now is just a sign of how privileged you have been to be able to ignore war and conflict that's existed around the globe since your birth.

The temperature has not gone up. You can't ignore the flames anymore.

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Post by lazyasciiart »

throwanem wrote: post #633
lazyasciiart wrote: post #570

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One might equally insightfully consider that psychopaths get married.

Begin your reading on page 346, at the heading "Pathologic egocentricity and incapacity for love." After that, review Section Two for its many examples of psychopathic (mis)behavior in the marital context.

Bro. You cannot “always tell”. Get over yourself and whatever you are citing to support that ridiculous claim.

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Post by AlexCoventry »

classified wrote: post #638
AlexCoventry wrote: post #494

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No, AI has real, immediate, large-scale industrial and scientific applications. Cryptocurrency is a massive disappointment, but AI has genuine potential value.

> genuine potential value That's some beautiful mental and verbal gymnastics.

That's some cynical ignorance.

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Post by philipwhiuk »

cleversomething wrote: post #360
sleepybrett wrote: post #285

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> Every software dev I know uses Claude at some level. here is my leve:, try to get claude to properly perform some boring boilerplate for me until the tokens run out or i get super angry and then do it myself in a rage.

what stack do you work in, and how are you prompting it?

Ah, the old 'you're using it wrong'.

Either it's smart or it's not.

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Post by walletdrainer »

jlarocco wrote: post #639
walletdrainer wrote: post #621

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> The camera in Epstein's jail cell "failed" for the exact two minutes he was (supposedly) killing himself before magically starting to work again Why are you lying about this? How does it benefit you? It takes less than a minute to find this claim disproven in detail https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-... The idea that the cut happened when Epstein was supposedly killing himself is something…

Okay, I got that part wrong, but doesn't the fact it was edited out make it even more convincing there' a coverup? There's not even plausible deniability when it's been edited.

They edited out cameras restarting at exactly midnight?

That seems totally unsurprising to anyone who has ever worked with real CCTV setups, they’re flaming heaps of garbage from garbage suppliers set up by garbage contractors.

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Post by walletdrainer »

tmn wrote: post #627
walletdrainer wrote: post #621

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> The camera in Epstein's jail cell "failed" for the exact two minutes he was (supposedly) killing himself before magically starting to work again Why are you lying about this? How does it benefit you? It takes less than a minute to find this claim disproven in detail https://www.wired.com/story/the-fbis-jeffrey-epstein-prison-... The idea that the cut happened when Epstein was supposedly killing himself is something…

I'm confused what your core disagreement is? It seems like you're narrowing in on some relatively unimportant detail. Using your own source, what is the likely explanation for the tape shenanigans? Who cares if op was inaccurate to the exact specifics of the missing footage? Or am I not understanding the implication of the article you cited?

> relatively unimportant detail

GP invented the claim that the timing of the missing footage happened to coincide with Epstein’s death.

That’s not an unimportant detail! If their claim was true, that’d in fact be credible evidence that Epstein was murdered.

I don’t think the sources matter, you won’t find a single vaguely credible one that supports the crucial claim here.

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Post by UncleMeat »

bdangubic wrote: post #642
UncleMeat wrote: post #637

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Corporations that pollute our air and water without penalty do violence against us.

so basically every manufacturing corporation in existence?

Yes. Violence by capital is severe and constant but because it is diffuse it is not seen as such by many.

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Post by UncleMeat »

pixel_popping wrote: post #91
therobots927 wrote: post #60

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1. Americans need a job to get healthcare 2. Robots take away jobs from Americans and the proceeds to go the owner (investor) class 3. Americans no longer have healthcare Understand?

I understand (I'm not from the US), however, wouldn't healthcare in the US would get drastically cheaper (even eventually free?) if hospitals/clinics were composed of humanoids instead of humans?

No. Bosses are not actually incentivized to make the unit price of health services cheaper.
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