[Aurornis]

> That’s the result of equating survival with earning money. Western societies have done a good job of ensuring that.

OpenAI engineers with vested shares are not worried about having enough money to survive.

This is a lame attempt to shoe-horn unrelated political talking points and “Western society bad” into a conversation about highly paid engineers who will have no problem putting food on the table.

[Towaway69]

I was responding to a question on why have morals if they have no application.

If don’t like this example, how about folks going to church on Sundays listening to the Christian morals on not killing each other and during the week, these same folks work at the DoW organising wars around the world.

Or the politician taking lobbyists money. Or those folks who engage in recreational drug use while fighting a “war on drugs”.

There are many examples of morals playing second fiddle to the broader world around us.

[ajam1507]

And in every case there are people like you making excuses for them. Engineers working at OpenAI are not scraping by to provide for their families. They don't get a pass to do unethical things to keep their jobs.

[reverius42]

I wonder to what extent a lot of people in this discussion have no idea how high OpenAI's salary ranges are.

[Aurornis]

I think they know, but they see topics like this as a generic place to discuss their ideas about society or politics. So they start making points about something different and forget that it doesn’t have any relevance to the topic.