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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by glitchc on Sunday November 19, 2023 @03:32PM (#38337533)
Agreed. The cult of personality seems to have a strong grip on the US zeitgeist.

Technology is the new religion and Musk/Altman are the new messiahs, with Jobs and Gates as the patron saints.

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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by brookst on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:04PM (#38337981)
It’s funny how those who most decry cults end up sounding so cultish.

The opposite of cult worship is NOT cult antipathy.

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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by glitchc on Sunday November 19, 2023 @08:05PM (#38340751)
While sounding pithy, this is logically flawed. The opposite of theism is atheism, not agnosticism.
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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by brookst on Monday November 20, 2023 @11:34AM (#38350181)
Disagree. Both theism and atheism assert absolute knowledge of the unknowable. The opposite is not asserting such knowledge.
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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by the_only_law on Sunday November 19, 2023 @04:07PM (#38338035)
It’s mostly just this site and the SV delusion it’s connected with. I’d bet if you ask random Americans, they would have no idea who Altman even is.
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Re:OpenAI Investors Try to Get Altman Back: WSJ by glitchc on Sunday November 19, 2023 @08:08PM (#38340772)
Nah, you can replace Sam with a deity of choice depending on the group, ex. Taylor Swift.

As organized religion recedes, people fill the vacuum with gods of their own making.

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