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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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There's a pretty wide divide between the speculations of the motives of the alleged arsonist of Sam Altman's SF residence last week.
LW has handled the issue obliquely, but the main concern seems to be that they are pretty convinced the dude acted out of fear of AI-induced x-risk. The optics is that his actions would paint EA in a bad light.
HN (based on this big heap of comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724921) is more focused on the idea that Altman and co. are fomenting class hatred and the attack is more akin to Luigi Mangione's attack on a health insurance CEO. (Searching for "exinction" and "doom" in the threads doesn't throw up much)
Neither forum links to the dude's alleged slobslack.
My conclusion is that "AGI-driven X-risk" is a position too extreme at the moment for HN.
Also I believe the alleged attacker is not an avatar of a popular movement but a confused individual self-radicalized online.
Edit It's good to know that if you are a radicalized person thinking about committing violence against people or property, LW will be happy to provide you with a safe space to vent, with guarantees on your anonymity. C.f. habryka's comment here https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/igEogGD9TAgAeAM7u/jimrandomh-s-shortform?commentId=zdMRHRqWDcjswhA3i
writing this up for today, will be mentioning Ziz
Looking forward to it!
I think SBF's Scamfest Spectacular did a good enough job of that already :P
Altman and co's antics have repeatedly shafted the working class to billionaires' direct benefit, so I'll give the orange site that on the "fomenting class hatred" part. Thinking his actions are any way related to Luigi Mangione nailing the healthcare billionaire's fucking wild, though
Still, being a possible hotbed for domestic terrorism is a whole different ballpark of having the authorities meddle into your day-to-day.
Didnt he also have sort of links to the LW idea space?
His substack reads like LW.