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by bgwalter 265 days ago
It is not at all an ad hominem. Disclosure of interests and conflicts for interest were assumed to be declared in the open even a decade ago.

Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid conflicts of interest, Trump launched a coin pump & dump on his first day.

If a Nobel Prize winner works for a corporation, that should be disclosed (the original title contained "Nobel Prize Laureate" instead of "DeepMind Director").

But I suppose that in the current age where everyone just wants to get rich these courtesies no longer matter.

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You are making a completely different point than the person I'm responding to. An equally bad point, but a different point nonetheless.

His title is in the video thumbnail.

> But I suppose that in the current age where everyone just wants to get rich these courtesies no longer matter.

Surely you agree this is a veiled ad hominem