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Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by disqard on Friday April 10, 2026 @08:27PM (#47725728)
From a POSIWID perspective, you are right.

From a "we live in a civilized society" perspective, I can see why some people are outraged about his killing.

Finally, looking at the balance sheet of his accomplishments, I can also see why the pitchfork crowd is cheering.

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Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by apothegm on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:09PM (#47726552)
POSIWID?
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Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by aleph_minus_one on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:26PM (#47726673)
> POSIWID?

"purpose of a system is what it does"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...

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Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by simianwords on Friday April 10, 2026 @10:31PM (#47726723)
“POSWID” is pseudo intellectual garbage name dropped to justify any naive position. It means nothing.
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Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by card_zero on Saturday April 11, 2026 @05:52AM (#47729137)
It does seem to be nonsense, yes. The duck test makes more sense. In the duck test, you can't claim something is an eagle if it walks and quacks like a duck. In POSIWID, however, you can't claim you intended it to be an eagle.
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Re:Molotov Cocktail Is Hurled at Home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by justinclift on Saturday April 11, 2026 @01:51AM (#47727829)
> From a "we live in a civilized society" perspective, I can see why some people are outraged about his killing.

I sometimes wonder how many of the "outraged" are really just people who don't want to be judged for what they've done too.

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