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Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by raffael_de »

bob1029 wrote: post #647
raffael_de wrote: post #644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it maybe be a great idea to just ban anything that's not actually about science and technology from this board? This will have the indirect effect of people leaving it who are here for political trench fights? Plus the good old flame wars about technology x versus y are pretty harmless in comparison. (And no, just because Sam Altman is CEO of tech company doesn't make this news tech news.)

I think a proper OpenAI vs Anthropic flame war might actually do this community some good. Let's just have it out. Avoiding violation of the x vs y technology rule seems to have resulted in a lot of pent up energy. I don't see the harm at this point if dang is saying it's over.

forgot that there is even such a policy. the differentiating feature of hn always was that comments and discussions are relatively thoughtful and civil. that's quickly getting lost.

Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF »

richardlblair wrote: post #199

Jfc. People, a molitov cocktail was thrown as his home. The rest of what is written doesn't matter. This isn't the moment for that conversation. That's his family. He has a fucking child. Holy shit.

When the attack is being used to craft a very particular narrative unrelated to the attack, a lot of other things continue to matter, and yes they do matter right now. That is on the premise that this isn't some depraved PR stunt. And that is also ignoring how purposefully misleading most headlines as well as your comment are.

Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by foxes »

raffael_de wrote: post #644
dang wrote: post #575

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: It would have been clearer to say "I've never seen a mob dynamic this bad on Hac…

Wouldn't it maybe be a great idea to just ban anything that's not actually about science and technology from this board? This will have the indirect effect of people leaving it who are here for political trench fights? Plus the good old flame wars about technology x versus y are pretty harmless in comparison. (And no, just because Sam Altman is CEO of tech company doesn't make this news tech news.)

Tech and science are political .. they don't exist in some sort of vacuum.

Further being "apolotical" means supporting the current status quo.

Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by ahartmetz »

snek_case wrote: post #500
Chance-Device wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nobody has one. If labor stops having value the economy will stop working and society will break down far in advance of building the infrastructure necessary for the promised AI abundance. I like the idea of being ”post-scarcity” as much as the next guy, but I don’t understand how we get there. It’s a project in itself, it doesn’t just happen by magic, and nobody is actively trying to make it happen or has any logist…

It made me kind of angry when I saw Dario repeatedly claiming that AI would be taking all the programming jobs any minute now. His company supposedly is working for a better future, but he's giddily talking about something that could cause millions of people to lose their homes if it were true. Our governments have a habit of being reactive rather than proactive. People have floated the idea of UBI, but if UBI happen…

You can look up what tends to happen when human labor isn't needed anymore by reading about the resource curse - that one is also about not needing human labor. Only the least corrupt countries seem to be able to resist it. None of these countries have a very large population, so chances are that you don't live in one of them.

Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by mvc »

arrowsmith wrote: post #649
pydry wrote: post #639

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Not ok, but anybody who is ok with terrorizing, say, an Iranian civilian nuclear scientist ought to be equally indifferent to this.

I’m not indifferent to either of them, but if you equate American tech executives with agents of the Iranian nuclear programme then I don’t care what you have to say on any subject ever

What about executives/scientists on the US nuclear programme?

Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by raffael_de »

foxes wrote: post #654
raffael_de wrote: post #644

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't it maybe be a great idea to just ban anything that's not actually about science and technology from this board? This will have the indirect effect of people leaving it who are here for political trench fights? Plus the good old flame wars about technology x versus y are pretty harmless in comparison. (And no, just because Sam Altman is CEO of tech company doesn't make this news tech news.)

Tech and science are political .. they don't exist in some sort of vacuum. Further being "apolotical" means supporting the current status quo.

I consider your stance highly toxic.

Re: Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident

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Post by Capricorn2481 »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #621
arduanika wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Saw GPs comment while logged out and thought it must be pretty heinous, surprised to see he got downvoted into oblivion for something so benign.

You thought it was weird a comment randomly calling someone gay was downvoted?
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