> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough with "position of power". I wasn't talking about "James Wilson, truck driver in Madison" or "Allison Smith, bartender in Columbu

> Perhaps I wasn't clear enough with "position of power". I wasn't talking about "James Wilson, truck driver in Madison" or "Allison Smith, bartender in Columbus". I suppose I don't really see much of a rhetorical difference. Proposing that we exile people who disagree with you is pretty gross to me. It doesn't matter you constrained yourself to only punishing the 'powerful'. > Thiel can grab a friendly dinner with the greatest threat to humanity on Monday This just sounds hyperbolic. Care to back this ridiculous statement? > and yet Sam Altman will gladly have lunch with him on Tuesday and joke about his "friends" as though nothing happened? People are multifaceted. As much as you'd like to reduce people down to single words or ideas, they're not that simple.