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>Sometimes when I find someone to look up to and admire, I later find out there is potentially some dark reality to them I too feel exactly what you are saying
by alentred 16d ago
>Sometimes when I find someone to look up to and admire, I later find out there is potentially some dark reality to them
I too feel exactly what you are saying. I also think that a lot of good role models are simply often among less visible people, sometimes less ambitious. I am not assuming any hard correlation between the two, though. And we also need to accept that we are all only humans, not infallible. Values are more important than singular acts (within reasonable acceptance limits of course).
Anyway. I strongly recommend reading what Bill Gates has to say about AI. I can be wrong, but based on your comment it seems to me that you may find it interesting.
- tsimionescu 16d agoBringing up known Epstein associate Bill Gates, whose own wife divorced him because of this association, in this context seems very weird.
- alentred 16d agoWow, I admit I didn’t know about this. According to my coarse reading of the news sites it seems like there was no association in fact, but I won’t insist on anything, I only learnt about this now.
- tsimionescu 16d agoNo worries, and sorry for assuming you knew about it. Here is a Forbes article that goes over what is currently known: https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/04/08/what-we-know-about-bill-gates-connection-to-jeffrey-epstein-as-billionaire-prepares-to-testify/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/04/08/what-we... Of course, none of this would be strong enough for accusing him of something in court, but it seems very implausible that his own account is truthful.
- salemh 16d ago[dead]