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A comment on Anil Dash's analysis of Sam Altman's free speach essay. Parent comment

Re:Anil Dash's analysis of Sam Altman's free speach essay by nl on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:44PM (#15936851)
He said that they are literally leaving because people couldn't take arguments against life extension.

I think life extension is great, but I think leaving because people disagree with that is close to the definition of "unable to take it".

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Re:Anil Dash's analysis of Sam Altman's free speach essay by bthornbury on Friday December 15, 2017 @08:56PM (#15936916)
Arguments against? Or the social consequences of being on the "wrong" side of a controversial argument?

I'd assert the latter...

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Re:Anil Dash's analysis of Sam Altman's free speach essay by nl on Saturday December 16, 2017 @01:43AM (#15938181)
I’m not sure that matters? Or rather, the specifics of the controversial argument matter a lot.

If someone is unable to find people who agree that helping people live longer then perhaps there is something else going on, because that doesn’t seem a hard argument to make.

OTOH, if they are making the argument that Hitler was correct, then yes I would unashamedly hope there are social consequences.

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