The problem with lashing out like this is that whataboutism is not constructive. Your uneducated tech billionaires and their sometimes a bit too crazy ideas are posing real threats and people all over the world are starting to realize it.

That being said, I admit that my original comment also wasn't very constructive, more of an emotional statement. I need to get off HN and other social media, they're a waste of time.

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dzhiurgis 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So you could've just deleted your comment.

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Dig1t 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I don’t think what he said is whataboutism, the original claim was that this policy was related to the US becoming “most hated country”. But if it is just doing something that every other country is also doing, then it doesn’t seem like it’d move the needle much on “most hated country” status.

	▲	jonathanstrange 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We're discussing this in the context of Altman's project, which is a project by a US company. You're welcome to find examples from other countries but the OP didn't mention any of them. The fact is that currently no other country has the same kind of techno-fascism, it's US-specific and mostly caused by the lack of education of your new tech elite. The new generation consist mostly of dropouts who barely read and talk about things they're not qualified to talk about at all. That wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have so much influence. US companies used to do their business, now they're publishing fascist manifests (e.g. Alex Karp) and directly interfere in politics (e.g. Peter Thiel, Elon Musk). That's not even remotely comparable to what's going on in other countries. By the way, I encourage you to look at actual statistics about how liked the US is currently in comparison to other countries.