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Sounds like this was just a crazy guy upset at OpenAI. Not great but an isolated incident. That said… is anyone going to be surprised when the laid off masses
by woeirua 6mo ago
Sounds like this was just a crazy guy upset at OpenAI. Not great but an isolated incident.
That said… is anyone going to be surprised when the laid off masses torch a data center or worse? IMO, it’s only a matter of time before we see organized anti-AI terrorism too. When you have people out there saying “AI will kill us all” then it’s easy to justify using violence to stop that outcome.
- negura 6mo agoI'd also call it isolated, but I mean it in a different way. I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire. Which I guess makes it notable? > organized anti-AI terrorism too There were already memes about that > When you have people out there saying “AI will kill us all” It's the "clickbait" mechanism becoming more cancerous
- 9rx 6mo ago> I can't recall similar attacks against a tech bilionnaire. How about Ted Kaczynski (Unabomber)? Attacking the tech elite was his deal.
- infamouscow 6mo agoAs we've discovering with the Epstein releases, Ted Kaczynski was ahead of his time (w.r.t. David Gelernter).
- tsoukase 6mo agoRelated: "A 29-year-old employee, identified as Chamel Abdulkarim, was arrested for allegedly starting a massive six-alarm fire that destroyed a Kimberly-Clark sanitary paper warehouse in Ontario, California, on April 7, 2026." He said "All you had to do was pay us enough to live" And this was caused not by a homeless or unemployed.
- ifwinterco 6mo agoFilming himself doing something that will get him years or even decades in prison suggests he wasn’t exactly of completely sound mind when he did that. Similar here with the guy going straight from the crime scene to OpenAI HQ to get caught
- LadyCailin 6mo agoI’d be curious to hear your opinion on things like Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech then. I’m not defending the violence in this case, to be sure, but like, in general, I disagree that violence is always the irrational choice.
- ifwinterco 6mo agoMy point is violence can be rational but you should at least attempt to get away with it, so you can carry on afterwards. It's hard to effect any sort of change from a prison cell, violent or otherwise, so it's irrational to deliberately get yourself locked up if your aim is to change things
- timmytokyo 6mo agoPerhaps he felt a jail cell would offer him a better life than what he was getting in society.