This is how I find out that he’s gay?
Well, good for him and his partner.
Anytime any non scientist wants to genetically engineer babies you should get very worried
When crypto or ai bros want to do that get outright scared
Wait a tic. I’ve seen this movie.
so all Lemmy takes from this article is that Sam Altman is gay.
Tim Cook, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel.
We have enough data points to suggest that being gay doesn’t insulate you from being greedy and corrupt.
That’s important, too.
Gay people are just as shitty as everyone else. They’re no better or no worse. They just have sex with people of the same gender.
Who you want to fuck REALLY doesn’t matter, like, at all, imo, in the grand scheme of things.
Unless you want to fuck everyone.
We have a code of conduct training at work that includes and anti corruption segment (nothing weird, just stuff like “a vendor buying lunch at a sales meeting is fine, but no gifts or having lunch at extremely expensive places”, and “some places give small symbolic gifts around holidays, usually a pastry. That’s fine. Do not accept a $500 pastry”)
A couple years ago they updated the module and the person engaging in non-obvious corrupt business practices became gay in passing. The overwhelming response by a lot of the company was “yay! We made it guys! They realized that we like bribes too! I feel so seen”.
If someone was going to accept a $500 pastry, I’d put my money on the gay guy.
(It’s me.)
Why would it? I have never thought to myself, this seems like a bad person but he is gay so maybe not. :)
In a different time, it was popular to think that capitalism would be better if minorities were winning at it.
A few girlbosses and Diddys later, I’d like to think we know better.
Yeah, now we have a bigger pool to recruit our sociopaths from. Big win, huh?
Yeah ok.
Yeah i keep seeing so many awful people in leadership positions, but so many good people outside of leadership.
So we have any good leaders anywhere? Its an honest question at this point.
In my experience, occasionally a good one will still slip though the net.
What baby? How? I’m very confused right now.
Odd way to learn altman is gay.
Kinda shocked I’ve never seen a “worlds richest gay man!” Headline. That feels like low hanging fru-
Gay is only bad if the poors do it, of course /s
Does Thiel not have more money?
Thiel killed the outlet that outed him.
Another one I didn’t know is gay.
Props to msm for not making it a big deal
Thiel was outed by Gawker and made it a mission to secretly fund the Hulk Hogan lawsuit which resulted in Gawker going bankrupt: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdrange/2016/06/21/peter-thiels-war-on-gawker-a-timeline/
Oh that one’s because he goes nuclear when they do. He funded the killing of Gawker because they outed him.
I worry more about that he is a full blown psycho.
Honestly I don’t think it’s any of our business. Even rich assholes are allowed to have a private life. Although with some (Musk, Trump) that private life is so fucked up it’s impossible to ignore, but generally I’m totally fine with not knowing who they fuck.
TIL Sam is gay
further proof their homophobia is performative to have the peasants infighting about trans people they probably never met in their life.
The trans people they never knew they met.
I’ve been an androgynous (cis gay) man most of my life, and when I was young I was mistaken for a girl a lot. Hell I even had my own doubts for a while.
There’s lots of people out there that think that they can tell if someone is trans or not. Hell I have met LGBTQ+ people that think they can just tell. The truth is, they can’t.
You will have met trans people that you didn’t know are trans, and if you go around making assumptions, you’ll meet cis people you think are trans, but aren’t.
A couple of months ago I found out that this person I’ve been casually following on YouTube for almost a decade is a trans woman.
Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.
Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.
So, are you one of them Trans gingers or what?
Like that?
Yes. Throw respect out the window and enquire directly about the status of their genitals too.
Pretty sure he and others like him are not gay; If they want to engineer babies, it’s for a reason…
Wait, this guy’s gay?
Neoliberal utopia. The wealthy elite destroying the world and forcing eugenics on the masses fly a rainbow flag
Its working.
It’s almost as if the forces of good and evil don’t abide by the line we draw in the sand, for some reason.
The ability to reduce diseases and disorders in newborns sounds wonderful, until you find out which techno-fascist is behind the movement.
The other issue I have is that this is an example of a recurring issue in which the tech obsessed ultra wealthy declare their plan to solve a problem for which a very straightforward policy solution already exists.
We don’t need tech to extend lives or feed the hungry. We just need to remove the paywalls to existing resources.
Yeah, here’s an easy way to prevent most birth defects:
Free nutritious food
Regulating toxic chemicals
Prenatal education and healthcareNone of that will deal with an inherited genetic disorder
I think nutrition has a bigger effect than genetic variability
Oh come on.
This guy couldn’t even get a train to run on time.
I mean, the original flavor didn’t either
In before this turns into “I want my baby to have blue eyes and 150”
It’s an interesting ethical debate.
I have a hereditary condition which passes only by the X chromosome, so should I, as a man, abort a daughter? Because now the risk is too high and I’ve elected to simply not have children. It would be great if I could fix the single swapped base pair that would otherwise cause disfigurement and life-long health problems.
Yeah I’m always conflicted. Like eugenics is the end goal for these fascists but also… We should try to prevent hereditary defects rtct
The unforeseen effects should be enough to give us pause.
What do you mean with unforeseen effects in this context?
Unforeseen is pretty clear, by definition, that they’re things we wouldn’t be able to predict until they happen. I agree with the general sentiment in this thread btw, using genetics to prevent hereditary conditions or otherwise improve the human condition sounds great on paper but it’s risky business.
This is why billionaires should be kept away from sciences and tech but unfortunately they are all over it. The fact that these require lot of funding does not help.
They should be kept away from everything by not existing
High IQ would be sure nice, but has a large number of genes involved. Not that you need a high IQ as a farmer in a low technology future.
Since when are IQ scores indicative of intelligence?
the headline misspelled eugenics.
Ah yes, pleas give me more of that sickle cell anemia pls.
The same guy who admitted he couldn’t raise his child without ChatGPT btw.
This is a very good reminder - thank you.
So we’re skipping the Bell Riots and straight into Eugenics War?
Give me Butlerian jihad or give me death!
No thank you, I like Computers
They do realize that this is how most zombie apocalypse movies start. Genetic tapering to stop diseases.
Yeah that’s fiction for a reason
I mean the zombie part, sure.
Do you really think in the hands of Silicon Valley techbros this ain’t gonna get ugly?
I mean I can certainly imagine all sorts of crazy shit but I don’t think it’ll be any kind of outbreak that kills the species, call me optimistic
Five years ago someone ate a bat and it shut down the entire world. I think you need a better imagination.
ah, ok, so GATTACA is up next. got it.
