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    he deserves it, these POS are trying to turn the USA and by extension the world into a tech aristocracy, they are thieves and conmen on the grandest scale, nothing more.

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    This is so dumb, attacking Sam Altman makes AI look powerful and dangerous instead of just being a scam.

    The alleged attack could add to heightened fears voiced earlier in the weekend by Altman, who wrote after Friday’s Molotov cocktail incident: “The fear and anxiety about AI is justified. We are in the process of witnessing the largest change to society in a long time, and perhaps ever.”

    Nah dawg, we are not.

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      Maybe it’s staged. I mean how much would cost to pay some people to do this. Notice how no real damage is done and no ones hurt. If that his response then I think he set this up to boost his scam.

      Now if someone can prove me wrong by getting it right then I conceed they are real. At this moment I think its all bullshit. No way average person could get that close to his home.

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        I mean whether he staged it or not, all cult leaders are dependent upon producing a near militant zeal in their followers and that is bound to create people at the periphery of the cult who believe you are powerful and still buy into the fantasy of your power but no longer believe in you and believe they must stop you.

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      You’re telling me that a scam cannot be powerful & dangerous, and that AI cannot be powerful & dangerous. But they are 2 powerful and dangerous things…

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      You’re telling me that a scam cannot be powerful and dangerous, and that AI is not powerful and dangerous. They are 2 powerful and dangerous things, no?

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            That kinda undercuts the grandparent commenter not caring about the reason, though. If you’re sending a message, it matters what the message says.

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            What message do you think it would send?

            Sam Altman is full of shit, violently attacking him distracts from that and hands him an easy narrative to defend his actions with.

            It is counterproductive.

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                Hurting or killing Altman will lead to a more authoritarian, brutal crackdown and consolidation of power in the ruling class, it can lead nowhere else.

                The only message you would send is it is ok for those in power to begin more openly smashing our society to pieces in the interests of keeping “everyone” safe.

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                  That authoritarian crackdown will lead to an even larger anti-auth response. The reality is that the anti-auths can see and raise any authoritarian escalation, just like France did ~250 years ago.

                  The ruling class needs to figure out how to step back from the precipice, and fast. Bread and circuses incoming.

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                Were you not paying attention to how Kirk was “martyred” by the mainstream media?

                Did you not see how who Charlie Kirk was before he was killed become merely an uncomfortable detail to a rousing story of tragedy after he was killed?

                Charlie Kirk’s ideas will NEVER be challenged, lampooned and dismantled fairly because his ideas are overshadowed by the narrative of his murder. If a leftist shot someone like Kirk it would be the beginning of a brutal implosion of civil liberties that would make what has happened so far look relatively limited in comparison.

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                  Are you joking??? The mainstream media tried turning him into a martyr, sure, but to what end? Abject failure. Like, c’mon, name one person who has taken his ideas more seriously since his neck just did that. I’ll wait.
                  His lifetime dedication to making the world a worse place was put to an abrupt end, and his entire legacy of cruelty has become nothing more than a joke, with his name now a mere punchline.