this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I suspect that, prior to watching the film, Sam did not know the part of the story where Oppenheimer is a communist. It must have hurt to realize that his heroic physicist was not a John Galt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what saltman thought the Barbie movie was about

fuck, he’s exactly the right age to have played bioshock and missed the point of that too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(I think Bioshock managed to do this for seasteading and biohacking)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

bioshock was such a passionate hate letter to libertarian ideas that a bunch of right-wing streamers took it upon themselves to trick children into thinking the game is apolitical and Andrew Ryan is actually the good guy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Didn't they stop just short of actually saying that? Just implied that he was very sympathetic to them (and of course was involved in organizing labour)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have to be intentionally aiming for a bad take to arrive at this..

…right?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idiot billionaires constantly post like this. if the consensus is the idea is stupid, it was a joke we didn’t get. if it catches on, they get to maintain the grift that they’re a visionary

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I’m dubbing this “Schrödinger’s Dipshit”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The I in Op*nAI stands for the guy's intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Why did you censor the e?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

?!?!?!??!?!?? "Wow barbequing all those Japanese civilians was badass...I want to do that"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Sam Altman before watching Oppenheimer: “Oh man, the scene where hundreds of thousands of Japanese people are killed with a bomb built from American Ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit is gonna be awesome! Oppenheimer must have been such a cool guy! Science can never do anything bad! I am not capable of critical thought!”