When people describe DEI as hiring unqualified minorities what they mean is that people should be considered unqualified if they are a minority.

Yes, our closest surviving relative great apes do.

We diverged from them a very long time as well. There are no close relatives alive to us left, because we won that evolutionary competition. Unless you would prefer to start splitting homo sapiens into the currently existing three mainline genetically trees of homo sapiens development we have today (Pygmies, Sub-Saharans and everyone else).

None of our groups practice this.

P.S. "I can escape my nature" is indeed a delusion of Divinity of Man. It is a delusion because it assumes that your mind is more than you. There's even a very clear religious root of this delusion that can be defined, that being the Christianity developing dogma of Trinity and dogma of "Holy Spirit". A spark of God within each Man. Other religions that developed differently either make no such distinction in the first place, or are focused on battle between mind as merely one small part of self trying to gain control over self that is much greater than mind (i.e. Buddhism).

Ever since then, Western cultures that developed under this dogma assume that mind is something that is separate and greater than the rest of the body. "Base nature" is one of the more popular modern ways of addressing this "rest of the body". It's a fundamentalist religious assumption that led to a lot of problems. For example Western medicine long assumed that bacteria are only harmful because if you view everything as separate rather than as a harmonious hole that it actually is, everything that doesn't immediately neatly slot into "definable by mind" is assumed to be a part of "outside of divinity". And we couldn't even begin to address obesity until someone sufficiently disconnected from Christianity based mainline Western culture realized that the most "base nature" one could think of, gut bacteria actually significantly participate in "the mind".

I.e. not only is mind not separate from the body, it is merely a small part of co-evolved cognition apparatus that exists in humans mostly formed by beings that aren't not only definitionally not human, but aren't even multi-cellular.

You can rise above it far less than you can rise controlling your liver function with your mind.

Important factor: "most talent" typically means the opposite of "best talent".

In AI like in most things, it's the top talent that actually matters the most. Normal distribution is top 20% does more than 80%. More recently distribution shifted to 5/95 in many fields because modern technologies increasingly empower top performers to be even more performant.

And with AI, it's shaping to be empowering something like top 0.01% to be as performant as the rest in fields where outcome is sufficiently multiplicative. I.e. small amount of people can make a product that serves billions. Good examples of relevant fields are software where one excellent dev can deliver a product that works for billions with minimal need for even support staff, vs something like non-automatable (at this point) food production, where a top tier picker can only pick maybe a couple of times more fruit than average. Notably this is one of the fields in which AI is changing things.

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What is this obsession with pedophilia? I'm really getting rather suspicious of MAGA. I suspect your average Catholic priest or Southern Baptist youth pastor thinks about nude children less than most MAGA individuals.

It could be interpreted as either biological, nurture driven, or both. The idiot parents who are reproducing en masse raise their kids to be idiots. The warning of Idiocracy is valid regardless of where one stands regarding the hereditary nature of intelligence/IQ.

If this was "normal" in US, fracking boom wouldn't have happened, for largely same reasons it didn't happen across EU. Popular resistance from land owners. No one wanted to deal with problems of fracking on their land, without getting well compensated for it.

In US, land owners got compensated, so they pushed for it. US federalism does allow for people to run their states like pants on the head retarded communists (which is actually rare for communists, most tend to be of at least average intelligence and significant plurality are highly intelligent, see Chinese Communists where 130IQ is estimated to be on the lower end needed to get into party leadership role).

But your name suggests you're an Oregonian, and Oregon is indeed one of those rare exceptions that proves the rule. Utter far left insanity in leadership, and not even the intelligent kind unlike for example Chinese.

You could start with the fact that he secured by far the most investments out of all AI companies for his company.

You could then go on to note them being top attractors of relevant talent in the field, and having stayed that way for many years at this point.

Then you can proceed to noting that he has become the de facto public face of current AI push. Most people have no idea who leads Anthropic. Meanwhile pretty much everyone who follows AI even remotely knows who Altman is.

So best investment acquisition, best hiring capability, best PR just to name a few critical fields for a CEO. To argue with those results is to argue with reality. You can hate man all you want (frankly, it's easy to do, dude is a shifty asshole with physiognomy of a used car salesman). But results speak for themselves.

Delusion of Divinity of Man rather than accepting that human is an evolved animal is a pretty common reason for having problems dealing with reality nowadays.

Notably human leaders generally don't kill infants of previous leaders, because our tribal structures evolved to be different from lions. We had our evolutionary divergence from them a very long time ago.

Your full caps lock line appears to have omitted the critical "EV" part and claims, and I quote:

>MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT A "FULL-SIZED" FUCKING TRUCK. THEY'RE TOO GODDAMN BIG.

It seems that there's a desperate need to argue with results/reality among journo class today.

You can call Altman a "bad man" all you want. He actually continues to deliver results. And his sole job, and a measuring stick by which he is measured is "is he delivering results or not?"

Specifics of how he does it is only relevant for those within his organization.

Essentially this seems to be another case of farming naive people who genuinely believe that "bad men" shouldn't lead for clicks.

Welcome to the natural world. This behavior is normal among all social species with hierarchical social structures.

It's why every human culture has it.

Fracking.

Borderline free natgas produces same amount of energy while emitting approximately half of CO2 emissions of coal. So if you care about CO2 emissions, and you have the kind of geology current US fracking areas have, you go all out on it. Cheaper reliable power than coal.

Problem is, that is indeed a function of rather unique ecology in US. Where US has something like 12 layers of oil and gas that can be fracked in its best fracking areas, EU's best areas have about 5. Horrific regulatory nonsense where government rather than people owns what's under privately owned land also guarantees that property owners are massively incentivized to fight fracking, as they get all the downsides and none of the windfall.

And rest of the world doesn't have the CO2 neurosis, so they just don't care and go coal. As OP admits: emissions are rapidly going up and there's no end to increase in sight as we're lifting the poor out of poverty, primary requirement for which is cheap and available power.

We finally found the reason Cybertruck exists. It's to shatter the cars of the people that "want to casually crush children, grandparents, and midsize sedans underneath their wheels".

That's why it has that hilariously thick and hard steel body. Now it makes sense.

It's really odd when people insist on arguing with reality and expecting to win. A single look at most sold cars for previous year worldwide tells you that Ford F-series is a massive seller:

https://www.statista.com/stati...

Double so considering that this is worldwide numbers, and F-series primarily sells in US.