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Mother Jones sues OpenAI and Microsoft - best pic of Sam Altman-Fried (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] homesweethomeMrL 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It’s hard for you to get that Sam is a public figure. Your tone policing is well-meant but you have no jurisdiction here.

[–] notanaltaccount 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not policing anything. People can say whatever the fuck they want, but I can call them out on it.

I've never claimed "jurisdiction" on a federated platform over what people can or can't say, and all psuedointellectual malpropisms aside, bullying public figures over how they look creates a culture in which this is acceptable behavior. It's your choice if you want to support that type of cultural environment, and you can say anything, but if you support a culture of looking down on people's appearances which they often don't control, then your a vile asshole at best and a eugenisist at worse.

[–] homesweethomeMrL 1 points 4 months ago

All I’m saying is this guy is terrible. I could type out 400 words about why and how, but I think we’re all on the same page there. So if he’s also got a stupid face, and he’s above the law and can’t feel pain why not use his stupid face as a kind of shorthand for his overall terribleness?

I’m not suggesting this is okay to do in general, it’s a special case. Hitler had a stupid face and I’ll be mean to him too, and if an impressionable young mind decides that means its okay to bully schoolmates well that’s not okay, it’s a problem that existed since time immemorial anyway, and the difference between the two is vast.

I know lots of people with stupid faces, myself included, and i wouldn’t hassle them for it - that would be mean. This guy, though? Yeah he’s almost demanded it. I’m not unsympathetic to your point; there are a lot of powerful public figures who are terrible and who are women, and I’d disagree with hassling them about their stupid face because there’s a whole secondary layer of demeaning women that’s not okay the way I look at it. But Elmo, thisguy, trump - all awful, awful men who also look ridiculous and i believe them to be fair game for mockery. Mockery, in service to taking down awful and powerful people, is allowed. It’s fine. IMO.