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[–] harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago

This is how I find out that he's gay?

Well, good for him and his partner.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 2 points 15 hours ago

Wait a tic. I've seen this movie.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago

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

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Sounds like he's trying to create his own Musk-esq mythos.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

What baby? How? I'm very confused right now.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago (4 children)

so all Lemmy takes from this article is that Sam Altman is gay.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago

I thought this was a commonly known fact. He wasn't hiding it.

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 0 points 15 hours ago

Unless you want to fuck everyone.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why would it? I have never thought to myself, this seems like a bad person but he is gay so maybe not. :)

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

In a different time, it was popular to think that capitalism would be better if minorities were winning at it.

A few girlbosses and Diddys later, I'd like to think we know better.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah, now we have a bigger pool to recruit our sociopaths from. Big win, huh?

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[–] nagaram@startrek.website 117 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Odd way to learn altman is gay.

Kinda shocked I've never seen a "worlds richest gay man!" Headline. That feels like low hanging fru-

[–] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 days ago

Gay is only bad if the poors do it, of course /s

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Does Thiel not have more money?

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Thiel killed the outlet that outed him.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

I worry more about that he is a full blown psycho.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 days ago

Honestly I don't think it's any of our business. Even rich assholes are allowed to have a private life. Although with some (Musk, Trump) that private life is so fucked up it's impossible to ignore, but generally I'm totally fine with not knowing who they fuck.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Neoliberal utopia. The wealthy elite destroying the world and forcing eugenics on the masses fly a rainbow flag

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago

Its working.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 234 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 100 points 2 days ago (1 children)

further proof their homophobia is performative to have the peasants infighting about trans people they probably never met in their life.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 62 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The trans people they never knew they met.

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I’ve been an androgynous (cis gay) man most of my life, and when I was young I was mistaken for a girl a lot. Hell I even had my own doubts for a while.

There’s lots of people out there that think that they can tell if someone is trans or not. Hell I have met LGBTQ+ people that think they can just tell. The truth is, they can’t.

You will have met trans people that you didn’t know are trans, and if you go around making assumptions, you’ll meet cis people you think are trans, but aren’t.

A couple of months ago I found out that this person I’ve been casually following on YouTube for almost a decade is a trans woman.

Like the absolutely easiest, most accurate way to tell if someone is trans is to just ask the person in question.

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[–] KaChilde@sh.itjust.works 102 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The ability to reduce diseases and disorders in newborns sounds wonderful, until you find out which techno-fascist is behind the movement.

[–] andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, here's an easy way to prevent most birth defects:

Free nutritious food
Regulating toxic chemicals
Prenatal education and healthcare

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The same guy who admitted he couldn't raise his child without ChatGPT btw.

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the headline misspelled eugenics.

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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

In before this turns into "I want my baby to have blue eyes and 150 IQ"

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So we’re skipping the Bell Riots and straight into Eugenics War?

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[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 15 points 2 days ago

ah, ok, so GATTACA is up next. got it.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

They do realize that this is how most zombie apocalypse movies start. Genetic tapering to stop diseases.

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