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kleinbl00  ·  2319 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: "This is why they hate us" - The Other Tech Bubble

    However, I think your long response supports my original statement that ideas can never be too dangerous to discuss.

I agree with you but it isn't the point. Ideas can never be too dangerous to discuss, but ideas can be too controversial to discuss in any situation at any time with any audience. Thus my rather long-form "it's not the idea it's the dick" - if Sam Altman were to say "we are grappling with technologies that have the chance to improve the length and quality of life for humans everywhere but right now only the rich can afford it, what are we going to do about that" I'll bet half of California would jump into the fray. If instead you say "I'm gonna make rich people immortal, bitchez, outta the gene pool" you're gonna get run out of town on a rail.

There are far, far, far too many examples of Silicon Valley wunderkinds in dire need of sensitivity training. That's the issue. Not the idea itself.