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.
Pretty sure he and others like him are not gay; If they want to engineer babies, it’s for a 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.
Not for a lack of trying
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.
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.)
Hey don’t leave Trump out of this! He’s at least bi.
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I am surprised the American government is even backing them.
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
Suspiciously all blonde haired and blue eyed. All with reduced intelligence unless you pay a lifelong subscription.
Wait, this guy’s gay?
Neoliberal utopia. The wealthy elite destroying the world and forcing eugenics on the masses fly a rainbow flag
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.
This is how I find out that he’s gay?
Well, good for him and his partner.
In before this turns into “I want my baby to have blue eyes and 150 IQ”
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
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
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
This really reminds me of “Brave New World”, kind of scary actually.
And everyone already has the ability to pick their Soma
Shit, thanks for reminding me I’m scrolling instead of reading the copy in my bag.
I’m actually pro genetic engineering for this usecase. By expanding our medicine, we created an evolutionary problem: Carriers of genetic diseases keep passing their genes, passing the defects further. This will result in more and more health issues unless faulty genes themselves are fixed
There are more capable, actual medical professionals that can advance this field in a non-wallstreet all eggs in one basket kind of way.
Rich asshole says he’ll invent something good but very expensive and so only available to the elite. People ITT: “Good things are bad!”
Yeah so, good for Altman, best idea he’s had probably. Spend the money before the bubble pops my dude.
This is the usual front to further develop “designer baby” tech (which we already have, it’s just the use is considered unethical). Mask investment as “saving the children” and altruistic to later flip the tech to billionaire friends so they can make little aryans on a d5 roll for a an AC of 1… Much like the open that turned for profit…
Sounds like he’s trying to create his own Musk-esq mythos.
What baby? How? I’m very confused right now.
