"Nothing that Altman could say justifies violence against him."

Nothing, really?

I think people are aware that speech can be an act, and that some violent acts must be resisted with reciprocal violence. (That's why we have "incitement to violence" as a limitation on free speech, for instance.)

Are we at that point? Maybe not. But I think it's a poor imagination that says it can never happen.

Yeah that's my thought too. People, especially Americans (I am one) have this weird belief that violence never has any place, ever, at any time.

I'd argue that the unwillingness to commit violence in certain situations is actually a character flaw.

If someone threatens my child with physical violence, an unwillingness to commit violence on my child's behalf isn't better morality; it's cowardice.

All this to say, I agree that the violence against Sam Altman in this particular situation seems unnecessary and ultimately not helpful to anyone.

> [E]specially Americans (I am one) have this weird belief that violence never has any place, ever, at any time.

So why isn't there a huge opposition in the USA against the wars that the USA started (currently: Iran; before: Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, ...).

The only famous exception of cultural impact I am aware of where there was a huge opposition against war in the USA was the Vietnam war.

There is?

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/03/25/americans-br...

I think Americans (and probably humans in general) have a distaste for local violence. Violence afar doesn't tickle the brain in the same way.

My ignorant take:

Media brought the horror of US casualties in Vietnam home in a mass and immediate way that didn't exist in prior conflicts. The novelty of that media combined with the casualty rates drove unpopularity. It made the violence feel more real.

Even if casualty rates in post-Vietnam conflicts were higher I'm not sure we'd see negative sentiment because media coverage of violence is so normalized now. Exposure to violence in media is no longer novel.

TV ads 20 years from now: "If you or a family member have suffered from Spandex Kidney, you may be entitled to compensation..."

What a goofy comment.

The article you're commenting on is about people who obviously would have wanted this disabled, but didn't have it disabled, presumably because they didn't know about this issue.

LLMs are nondeterministic.

I often get asked whether I'm a fellow employee.

Make someone a slave and give them a loaded gun, what could go wrong?

At work, they gave everyone a GitHub Copilot license whether they wanted one or not, which meant it started spewing nonsense on all our PRs. (I had them remove my license again.)

I don't use LLMs, but a coworker who does said that Copilot was one of the worst of the lot.

I find the differences between the CLIs pretty minor. GitHub and Kiro are the only ones allowed at my job, and GitHub is fine.

What many people who don't use the GitHub Copilot CLI don't seem to be aware of is that it's not limited to GPT models. I mostly use it with Gemini and Opus, for instance.

Likewise, I read it as "Fake Rescue Packet"