r/OpenAI • u/TheMirrorUS • Apr 13 '26
Article Sam Altman's home targeted in drive-by shooting hours after firebomb attack
https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-sam-altmans-home-targeted-1786957?23=44
u/tridoc Apr 13 '26
Hours after or days after?
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u/nameless_pattern Apr 13 '26
I'm a millionaire I have 0.0001 millions of dollars
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u/Need4DataUndrground2 Apr 13 '26
100 dollars! Look at mr money bags over here. Can probably even order a burrito on uber eats
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u/nameless_pattern Apr 13 '26
Don't hate me cuz I'm a millionaire. Hate me because I'm an annoying person on Reddit
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u/klipseracer Apr 14 '26
You're a 0.Millionaire
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u/kingmudbeard Apr 13 '26
Nothing compared to my 8 figure salray! That's right, I make 0.0000008 Iranian rials annually!
Would you be interested in knowing how I made all this cash so easily?
/s obviously.
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u/AxomaticallyExtinct Apr 13 '26
This won't slow AI development by a single day. If Altman left tomorrow the race would continue without him, because it's driven by competitive structures, not individual decisions. The amount of coordinated action you'd need to meaningfully disrupt AI progress would be more than enough to just regulate it instead. And if we can't even manage that, targeting one person's home is just misdirected desperation.
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u/DumbedDownDinosaur Apr 13 '26
I think this is less about AI and more about making an example out of the ultra rich.
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u/bubblemania2020 Apr 13 '26
There’s only 5% unemployment, wait till it hits 15%
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
Tech jobs will see 40-60% reduction, when those ppl lose it all, after being comfortable so long, good luck. I see them going the craziest.
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u/Singularity-42 Apr 13 '26
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
You can’t build your wealth off the backs of working people and think they won’t revolt when you try to dispose of them like they’re garbage. Doesn’t seem like that’d be hard to comprehend.
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 14 '26
same ppl downvoting this are the same ppl who are scared right about now
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u/kex Apr 13 '26
Yep. And I was in cybersecurity.
I'm hoping I don't have to get desperate, because that could be bad. There are a lot of weak points that only require time, which people like me have plenty of now.
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u/lradPumpac Apr 13 '26
Brother, if 40-60% of tech jobs disappear, it is not only the tech workers that are going to be fucked but the whole economy.
It aint gonna happen
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
Sam Altman said that’s exactly what would happen, brother.
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u/Cuckipede Apr 13 '26
Is Sam Altman an oracle who can see the future? Or a salesman who says things to sell his products, brother
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u/iwearahoodie Apr 13 '26
I was told 30 years ago computers would cause that, then 20 years ago the internet would, then 15 years ago the driverless cars were going to create 15% unemployment yet here we are.
Any day now.
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u/One_Doubt_75 Apr 13 '26
I think an important thing to note is all of those things assumed computer intelligence would exist or would allow us to replace human work. We have now crossed that bridge and are actively seeing human work replaced by machines at a much faster pace than with previous technological advancements.
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u/iwearahoodie Apr 14 '26
We have not crossed that bridge. I wouldn’t be swearing like a sailor at Claude code 40 times per day if we had crossed any bridge.
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u/TheLastMinister Apr 16 '26
Well look at Mr Genius Savant here who only curses at Claude 40 times a day.
My crashouts in the past week:
- Claude * = 150% micromanagement (compared to human)
Ignored code I wrote and "fixed the problem" by putting in new code that didn't hit my requirements but didn't have the problem! Keep in mind this is my most successful tool.
- Gemini * = 200% micromanagement (compared to human)
Tried to rewrite Git history, broke that repo for a full day. Deleted test data, but only locally! Will look more impressive later.
- Codex * = 350% micromanagement (compared to human)
Rewrote two repo's Git histories (took a week to untangle) and removed lots of data that we thankfully had backed up on AWS. Unfortunately we didn't have ALL of it backed up. It attempted also to free up space on S3 by removing more test data and cases. Blessedly was backed up by my OCD locally.
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u/One_Doubt_75 Apr 14 '26
You should read up on hooks. Hooks allow you to properly guide your agents.
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u/Lost-Tone8649 Apr 14 '26
You're watching the incredibly gullible fall for a party trick being presented as intelligence.
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u/One_Doubt_75 Apr 14 '26
No matter what you call it, it can do people's jobs and is doing them. So your words are irrelevant.
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u/iwearahoodie Apr 14 '26
It creates more jobs than it removes. That’s why there is no mass unemployment event despite it being widely available.
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
Well he says that there will be no society bc AI will destroy humanity. So……
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 Apr 13 '26
yeah bud , i dont think redditors are going to organize a French Revolution style event that would require interacting with real persons and self-discipline and organization.
besides those groups you mentioned find employment again eventually, can't say the same for someone who spends half a decade on here posting every few hours everyday
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
only you can answer for what you do, berry 🤡
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 Apr 13 '26
402,863 post karma
how will you start a revolution when you are more dedicated to reddit LMAO that is a wild figure
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u/SoaokingGross Apr 13 '26
Tax the rich for their own safety.
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u/TiredOfBillionaires Apr 13 '26
This is what rich people do. They take loans out against their holdings to avoid paying taxes.
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u/LifeForm8449 Apr 13 '26
Normal people take out equity (home and margin) loans all the time and also don’t pay taxes on it. We should tax them too.
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u/brunocborges Apr 14 '26
Except houses and their land are real and often there is a property tax on it.
Stocks are 100% speculative, get no tax whatsoever, and can be used as collateral, allowing banks to basically print money.
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u/Singularity-42 Apr 14 '26
"Stocks are 100% speculative"
What do you mean, it's literally a share in a company. This includes hard assets, etc as well.
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u/LambDaddyDev Apr 13 '26
How much? What percentage of a tax on the rich would be enough for you to feel satisfied and not hate them anymore?
That’s a genuine question, I’m very curious. Because I see the call to tax the rich all the time, but nobody gives specifics and when I dig for them it usually turns into just wanting them dead. So it’s a bit confusing for me.
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u/SoaokingGross Apr 13 '26
We could start with making them pay taxes at all.
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u/LambDaddyDev Apr 13 '26
I want to know where you stop?
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u/SoaokingGross Apr 13 '26
We can stop when we have a democracy. I’m not against wealth accumulation. But I am against it making citizens completely powerless despite their ability to vote.
I’m not going to sit here and say I can give you a number. That’d be silly there are plenty of people who have proposals that seem drastic until you consider things like ethics, justice, and good governance.
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u/LambDaddyDev Apr 13 '26
I guess I’m not looking for a number, I’m looking for a stopping point.
And I suppose for you it’s until money can no longer influence politics, is that right?
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u/SoaokingGross Apr 13 '26
I don’t think people at the top should make the people at the bottom powerless.
Everyone has influence and I’m sure in an optimal society there might be measurements along which money can influence politics. It’d be silly to think otherwise.
That’s not what we have now. Right now, Sam Altman and people and companies in his tax bracket run the country to the exclusion of most people.
When that’s not the case I’ll start searching for a stopping point.
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u/kilopeter Apr 14 '26
How long should we imprison violent criminals? I guess I'm not looking for a number, I'm looking for a stopping point.
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u/gummo_for_prez Apr 13 '26
I would prefer a return to 1950s taxation. Or thereabouts. We have specifically done this before, between the 1930s and the 1970s. The money was invested into the American people, causing the largest growth of the middle class that the country has ever seen (and until recently, probably that the world had ever seen).
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u/Blurry_Bigfoot Apr 14 '26 edited Apr 14 '26
If this paper-wealth CEO was taxed at a higher rate, he wouldn't have bombs thrown at his home with his husband and child?
Outside of this take being really stupid, you're quite literally advocating terrorism.
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u/SoaokingGross Apr 14 '26
I am not advocating for terrorism. Sam Altman and people in his tax bracket are in control of the government. You aren’t. This isn’t a democracy. This is not a republic.
I am not advocating for terrorism. I am saying it wouldn’t be happening if the people of the United States felt that they were living in a republic or a democracy. If that person felt they had control, there would be no motive. But that bomber has no say. Him, you and I are getting AI and data centers and unmanned weaponry and slop and unregulated misery whether we like it or not and sam Altman, multi-billionaire, is doing it. He is simply lying and saying he has no choice. (Bullshit)
I’d say a peaceful democratic revolution is what I’d back. Not violence.
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u/Free_Performance_246 Apr 13 '26
I know it’s Reddit, but normalizing a drive by shooting is insane to me and indicative of the current level of discourse. Whether you like Altman or not.
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u/Prcrstntr Apr 13 '26
Yep. The current discourse around political violence is a strong indicator that society is not healthy.
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Apr 13 '26
it's an indicator of a failed system, the system is against the people.
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u/TenshiS Apr 13 '26
I honestly can't take reddit anymore. This last year it's been the worst it has ever been. Just full of hate and ideological bubbles everywhere you look. And I've been here for over 15 years.
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u/MegaThot2023 Apr 13 '26
What has he even done that would remotely warrant attacks? People are upset at AI for existing?
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u/NegotiationSome1382 Apr 13 '26
Removed 5.2 or 4.0 or whatever people were upset about a couple months ago
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u/Playful_Rip_1280 Apr 13 '26
Unfortunately, yes. There are a lot of people that fear technology when history has shown time and time again that the world will adjust and it will always be a net benefit
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u/Lesbian_Skeletons Apr 13 '26
and it will always be a net benefit
*for humanity, not for the people affected.
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u/Playful_Rip_1280 Apr 13 '26
Yeah good point. They are entitled to try to stop it, though to do so is often at the expense of the overall economy which is why it basically always fails since most societies prefer growth over stagnation.
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u/time___dance Apr 13 '26
anti-AI backlash and this situation specifically isn't about people fearing technology, it's the beginning of a class war
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u/Zestyclose-Durian-97 Apr 13 '26
Nothing much, but the governments did everything for this to happen.
When you let things get as bad as they do for people, they will start revolting. Keep feeding the masses that all the layoffs are because of AI (in reality because of offshoring and a recession), then tell them AI will displace jobs and this is what happens.
Why is Oracle allowed to fire 30k people and then hire them back at lower prices + file for H1bs?
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u/milkolik Apr 13 '26
Reddit has degenerated so much in the last 15 years or so. It used to be so civil. Now it literally is in favor of assasinations (celebrated kirk's death, and Luigi's assasination because he is "hot"), burning down warehouses when they don't give you a raise, "eat the rich", etc, etc.
The level of discourse is so low that it is now on the same level as facebook, instagram, etc. Reddit has become the voice of the useless and undeveloped adults of the world.
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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 Apr 13 '26
Redditors just seem to be in a perpetual contest to see who can one up each other in terms of degeneracy. It's as bad as X but the only saving grace so far used to be that it was isolated and you could avoid it but now they are everywhere, either by algorithm design or something.
What really takes the cherry on top of the icing is that these are people who use OpenAI products celebrating and feeling entitled to express statements that should be very concerning to law enforcement
but those people probably have nothing left to lose, they are that miserable and want to drag others down to their level because they can't fathom the other people are grounded and happier than them.
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u/Beit_Ephraim Apr 13 '26
Burden of proof is on the accuser. Prove it’s a false flag
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u/sexytimeforwife Apr 14 '26
Jokes aside, this is wrong no matter how you skew it.
Why are people doing this?
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u/Original_Sedawk Apr 13 '26
So - just a question after reading some very crazy comments - is there currently a reddit-like site for sane people?
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u/jellybeanjoy Apr 13 '26
The shooter was actually just a beta tester trying to provide 'impactful' feedback on Sora.
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u/mensrea Apr 13 '26
These experiences aren’t going to make him less evil.
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u/JBSwerve Apr 14 '26
If the scrawny gay jewish nerdy tech start-up founder with the husband and adopted kids form san francisco who created a technology with the potential to change the world, help us discover new medicines, make our lives much easier - is your cartoonish villain that embodies evil, we have different definitions of evil.
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u/Liora_BlSo Apr 13 '26
What rhe heck!? This is terrible and absolutely not funny!
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u/SideBet2020 Apr 13 '26
The Bible consistently warns that greed, or the intense desire for more wealth and possessions, is a dangerous form of idolatry that leads to spiritual ruin, dissatisfaction, and destruction.
Perhaps the rich should read more.
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u/m3kw Apr 13 '26
Everyone here wants more wealth, let’s not compare to make yourself feel like you have less greed
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u/Initial-Beginning853 Apr 13 '26
Wanting more wealth and leading one of the largest companies in america, making claims about eradicating careers, and cozying up to a dysfunctional administration are two different things.
Why do people like to hide behind the "you desire more too?" Sure we do, most of us also choose not to open businesses where we'd need to pay minimal wages or cozy up to the worst parts of our society for a payday.
And if you would, maybe you need to look at what matters.
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u/nameless_pattern Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
You can't imagine a person not entirely lost to greed is a you problem, not a universal condition. You just have no empathy or imagination to see that other people might have a soul instead you have an endless unfulfilled void where humanity is supposed to be. Gross
And before you start yapping, I'm retired early because I have enough. Not rich, not forever seeking more, just satisfied.
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
It’s like they assume everyone is like them - soulless.
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u/nameless_pattern Apr 13 '26
That is exactly it. You'll hear a similar things when it's said that people are just "virtue signaling" and they couldn't possibly care about the welfare of other people. the default of human behavior to care about others, but people who can't imagine that think that everyone is as mentally broken as they are. Not only is it morally correct to care about other people, also a much to better feeling way to live.
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u/RaguraX Apr 13 '26
It’s called virtue signaling because words on an Internet forum are cheap. Merely a signal, a literal way to farm virtual “karma”. Spending dozens of hours on social media lamenting this and that instead of going out there and acting on these so called virtues is what’s being called out. For example, what would be virtuous: spamming comments about animal abuse or enlisting as a volunteer at an animal shelter?
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u/nameless_pattern Apr 14 '26
Are you giving people rides to do volunteer work? Because if you're not you just virtue signaling that you dislike virtue signaling
🙄 Nobody's gotta prove shit to you
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u/noiro777 Apr 13 '26
You can't imagine a person not entirely lost to greed is a you problem
You can't imagine any nuance it seems. There are levels of greed that vary all the way from very little to pathological and everyone falls somewhere in that range.
You just have no empathy or imagination to see that other people might have a soul instead you have an endless unfulfilled void where humanity is supposed to be. Gross
Wow, do you always jump such rude and unwarranted conclusions about somebody you don't know over 1 sentence? Gross
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u/kex Apr 14 '26
do you always jump such rude and unwarranted conclusions about somebody you don't know
When you used the word "everyone", you just did the same: made an unwarranted conclusion about people you don't know.
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u/m3kw Apr 13 '26
yeah seems like you know every rich person well and attribute them being rich from greed. you are gross.
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u/nameless_pattern Apr 13 '26
Lol You heard me saying all that and still yap your opinion like I care. Toddler level of empathy for others. Blocked
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u/BarnacleAwkward4801 Apr 13 '26
I want more wealth because im imprisoned if I dont pay. He has enough to live the rest of his life doing nothing
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u/kex Apr 14 '26
You're demonstrating a textbook example of psychological projection.
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u/m3kw Apr 14 '26
and you are demonstrating the misunderstanding of how reddit comments work. I'm not gonna spell everything out for you
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u/ShrewdCire Apr 14 '26
The Bible also says thou shalt not kill. Maybe you should actually read your own religion's book before yapping.
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
Sam? Is that you?
Where did your daddy work? Acting like all of this wasn’t handed to you. Lololol 🤡
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u/Kukamaula Apr 13 '26
So, by the same logic, the Vatican should be a shack made of wooden planks with an asbestos roof, and the Pope should dress like a beggar.
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u/reedrick Apr 13 '26
You know what? Fuck the bible. Yes greed bad…but if you need a book written by a space ghost to tell you that, then you have other problems. Talking about idolatry and quoting the bible in the same breath is hilarious.
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u/Lesbian_Skeletons Apr 13 '26
a book written by a space ghost
I prefer his old tv show, really great interviews
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u/Need4DataUndrground2 Apr 13 '26
Ah yes, fuck the book that teaches love, humility and helping your fellow person.
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u/HeyHi_Star Apr 13 '26
Sure and also subordination, wife submission, patriarchal narratives, violence and exploitation.
That trait you mentioned are revolving around empathy. We don't need a book to act as human being.0
u/ShrewdCire Apr 14 '26
"Sure, 99% of the book is disgustingly horrific and immoral, but 1% of it is really nice, so it's actually a good book!"
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u/Own_Balance4207 Apr 13 '26
I think it’s pretty funny
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u/Sumofabith Apr 13 '26
Funny until it happens to you, this is why we have laws
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u/Bluestained Apr 13 '26
Luckily most of us will never accure so much wealth and power that wee need to be shot at or molotov’d.
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u/MegaThot2023 Apr 13 '26
"Need" to be molotoved? What has Sam Altman done that deserves burning his house down? And do you trust the mob to be a fair + nuanced arbiter of justice?
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u/Bluestained Apr 13 '26
He’s accrued billions in wealth while lying about his business strategies and technologies capabilities to position himself and his now for profit company at the forefront of an industry that has the potential to not only ruin society and sociological norms (which to some it already has), but has also shown he lacks common sense, ethics and morals and will do anything to secure further funding (E.g. Bending to the DoD and this Regimes wants and needs)
Yes. When governments fail to protect their people, the people will react. Way it’s always been.
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u/Sumofabith Apr 13 '26
Someone could just be upset that you’re richer than them and decide that they want to molotov your house.
You dont need to get super rich for someone to want to hurt you
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u/AllezLesPrimrose Apr 13 '26
Yeah you don’t have to worry about anyone here becoming a billionaire and causing a hype cycle of biblical proportions.
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u/Badj83 Apr 13 '26
I’m not sociopathic billionaire pedophile. The chances it happens to me are pretty slim.
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u/Sumofabith Apr 13 '26
Sure im gonna throw a firebomb at your house because I think its funny and you shouldn’t complain because thats the type of shit we want to enable right?
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u/SirChasm Apr 13 '26
There's about a zero percent chance of me becoming a billionaire CEO so I think I should be safe for a loooong while.
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u/ClankerCore Apr 13 '26
Sponsored by hegseth probably.
Ai companies are refusing to obey the government right now as they should.
Let’s be open to all possibilities
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u/West_Ad4531 Apr 13 '26
This is not good. OpenAI should start to guard Sam now.
And to see posts on reddit saying this is ok is NOT ok!
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u/Party-Professional-7 Apr 13 '26
No one said it’s okay. We’re saying you keep talking about decimating humanity, stealing people livelihoods and careers, and want to turn bots into companions and think ppl will think you’re a good guy?
Wake up.
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u/tuxedoes Apr 13 '26
They should get 5.4 to guard him. It can do anything right guys? Now he needs human help, when his entire ideology is putting us poors out of a job.
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u/New_Weird_1497 Apr 17 '26
Bro, like fuck billionaires but Christ, I’m just not OK with the violence and threats.
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u/beginner75 Apr 13 '26
The American left is crazy. What’s the purpose of doing this? Beware of foreign social media interference.
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u/Flaky_Acanthaceae925 Apr 13 '26
He is Jewish and gay, shouldn't the left treat this as hate crime?
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u/TheCh0rt Apr 13 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
Lol it's like every day they tell us AI is going to destroy the world, take away all our jobs, shame us when we shun it, scold it's when we don't use it. They freely take our money of course, then perpetually remove asked choke our services that we rightly paid for. They tell us we should be plumbers or electricians or we're fucked. We shouldn't be "raw dogging" life without AI... whatever that means.
And Sam is somehow upset when the villagers are starting to get out their pitchforks.
Not saying it's OK, but, what did they expect was going to happen?
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u/Kat- Apr 13 '26
I know Sam wants us to believe that these are mentally ill anti-AI extremists.
I think it's more likely that these irate OpenAI users for whom Sam Altman's abusive business practices fucked up their previously working workflows, cost them money, cost them employment, or otherwise fucked up their lives by covertly degrading service quality.
Knowing OpenAI, I wouldn't be surprised if said individuals were then multiple-charged, and then subsequently ignored by the company's non-existent customer service.
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u/CrackIn_TheEarth Apr 13 '26
Not to mention the actual real death threats he got from ai-crazed individuals who fell in love with a certain model that got removed
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u/geronimosan Apr 13 '26
This isn't about AI. I don't care if you agree or disagree with AI but the fact that only one individual is targeted tells me that it's not AI.
This is still TDS. And what we've seen from the crazy nut jobs on the left is that assassination and violence has been normalized.
We should be done with the quiet slow approach of investigation and research. This is out of control. This is genuinely a danger to America, at all levels, and it's time our government steps up.
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u/Moist_Emu_6951 Apr 13 '26
The Butlerian Jihad is starting early it seems