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Sam Altman on Tucker Carlson [video] (youtube.com)
16 points by ericzawo 280 days ago
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I watched the interview and I was honestly shocked at how callous Carlson discussed the suicide case. Imagine being Altman, your friend killed himself, and someone casually brings up the idea that you might have ordered his murder, and then dances around the issue saying it’s not an accusation but still maintains it’s “worth looking into.”
Don't go to any public speaking events
I used to think of Tucker Carlson, Marjory Taylor Green, and Bernie Sanders as extreme political theater. Their honest transparent, and vocal opinions about Israel have really led me to rethink them and listen to them lately.
> Their honest transparent, and vocal opinions

How do you know the opinions are honest? That strikes me as not easily assessable. What does it mean that an opinion is transparent?

I believe they are honest because they are pushing factual numbers and speaking in reference to eye witness accounts.
But we know, with absolute certainty, from the Dominion lawsuit subpoenas, that Tucker Carlson was privately telling people that Trump was awful, while publicly saying the opposite.

His private texts include, "We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can't wait.”

And

"I hate him passionately. ... I can't handle much more of this”.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tucker-carlson-endorses-donald-...

He was sending these texts while publicly repeating the standard Fox News lines about how great Trump is, etc.

How can you ever consider him honest, after this?

This isn’t that. To consider his, or anyone else’s, honesty I compare what they say to the evidence they present and contrast that against competing claims from other sources.
So what you mean by "honest" is "they believe the same things as facts like I do, and draw the same conclusions?"

Or put differently: "they have the same world view as I have?"

Is there something special about you that has you convinced you’re not being tricked? Like do you think you have some exceptionally good bullshit detector? I’m genuinely curious about the mentality here.

What lead you to believe you can take two people like Tucker Carlson and MTG who are PRIMARILY known for spouting bullshit and you can somehow magically decipher the signal from the noise? Is it just the topic of Israel that you agree with them on? What are you actually comparing them against? I’d love to know more about what you’re describing looks like in practice because it sounds very handwavy at the moment and maybe it would be a better discussion with concrete details.

> I believe they are honest because they are pushing factual numbers and speaking in reference to eye witness accounts.

In 2018, MTG suggested that the CA fires were a result of The Rothchilds sending laser beams to earth and missing their intended target.

Political theater.
I am skeptical of any numbers from a war zone with a public relations war going on at the same time. This appears to be generally admitted, as witnessed by quotes as the long standing and cross cultural "the first casualty of war is truth." [1]

So I'm curious. How do you know the numbers are factual and they eye witnesses are what they say they are?

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/04/11/casualty/

Sure, so get foreign journalists in there so that we can all know for sure. Until such time I will retain the personal opinion that Israel is lying about everything.
But Hamas is not?
Bernard Sanders is against Israel despite being Jewish. It is surprising because he seems to be one of the few people who is not corruptible despite technically having religious and cultural links to Israel.

It comes down to the fact that he is a normie. He sees people dying and he instinctively speaks against it. It is similar with economical and other political talking points.

Bernie Sanders is Jewish but does not claim to have any such links to Israel.
He has religious and cultural links to Israel. He can become a citizen of Israel anytime he wishes. He probably has family there as well.
He has stated that he has no such links and no association to Israel, whether religious or cultural or familial.
Are you talking about the same Tucker Carlson which is paid off by the Russian regime to spread Russian propaganda?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crrlv7jdnq8o

Yes I am.
Bernie Sanders is an extremist (politically)? That’s kind of a hot take IMO.
Are you being sarcastic? Genuinely asking