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by tippa123 193 days ago
My two cents, this seems like a case where it’s better to wait for the person’s response instead of guessing.
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Fair enough. Anyway I wasn't trying to say what actually changed GP's life, I was just expressing my opinion on what video models could potentially bring as an improvement to a blind person.
My two cents, this seems like a comment it should be up to the OP to make instead of virtue signaling.
Yall could have gotten a serviceable answer about this topic out of ChatGPT. 2025 version of "let me google that for you"
> Can you share some ways AI has changed your life?

A question directed to GP, directly asking about their life and pointing this out is somehow virtue signalling, OK.

You can safely assume that anyone who uses “virtue signaling” unironically has nothing substantive to say.
Funny coming from someone who tells others not to speak unless asked, while no one asked them either.
>[People who call out performative bullshit should be ignored because they’re totally wrong and I totally mean it.]

Maybe you’re just being defensive? I’m sure he didn’t mean an attack at you personally.

It’s presumptuous of you to assume I was offended.

Accusing someone of “virtue signaling” is itself virtue signaling, just for a different in-group to use as a thought terminating cliche. It has been for decades. “Performative bullshit” is a great way to put it, just not in the way you intended.

If the OP had a substantive point to make they would have made it instead of using vague ad hominem that’s so 2008 it could be the opening track on a Best of Glenn Beck album (that’s roughly when I remember “virtue signaling” becoming a cliche).

...you know, people can have opinions about the best way to behave outside of self-aggrandizement, even if your brain can't grasp this concept.
exactly
From the list of virtues, which one was this signaling?

https://www.virtuesforlife.com/virtues-list/

I’d guess: Respect, consideration, authenticity, fairness.

Or should I too perhaps wait for OP to respond.