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I'm watching the announcement live from the white house and something about this just feels so strange and dystopian.

Reference for others: https://youtube.com/watch?v=L1ff0HhNMso

Well, the silver lining is the incredible human capacity to get used to almost any situation given enough time

It will get weirder, but only relatively so, the concept of normalcy always trailing just a little bit behind as we slide

Agreed, and whats the story behind the art chosen for the landing page?

I'm also curious how a global leader in multimodal generative AI chose this particular image. Did they prompt a generator for a super messy impressionist painting of red construction cranes with visible brush strokes, distorted to the point of barely being able to discern what the image represents?

Considering Stargate's introduction and plan seems to be a super messy concept of impressions of ideas and very lacking in details, the picture makes a lot of sense. Let AI evangelists see the future in the fuzz; let AI pessimists see failure in the abstract; let investors see $$$ in their pockets.

For me it's watching a gay man grovel at the feet of one of the most anti-LGBT politicians, a day after Trump signed multiple executive orders that dehumanized Altman and the LGBT community. Every token thinks they're special until they're spent.

sama, peter thiel ... they dgaf. there is a huge difference between an oppressed gay person and a wealthy one.

no one wants to bite the hand that feeds.

Trump was the first president to come into office supporting gay marriage. Trump only has a problem with the "t" part of the community and only in bathrooms and sports, not in general.

This didn't age well.

>For me it's watching a gay man grovel at the feet of one of the most anti-LGBT politicians

Besides what ImJamal said, as a wealthy playboy man-about-town hanging out at Studio 54 in the '70s and '80s, I guarantee Trump has known and been friends with more gays than 95% of Americans. Certainly there has been no shortage of gay people among his top-level appointees in either his first or second administrations.

> I guarantee Trump has known and been friends with more gays than 95% of Americans.

ok... ??? doesn't mean a thing, frankly.

Actually it does, especially in the context of the rest of what I wrote:

>Certainly there has been no shortage of gay people among his top-level appointees in either his first or second administrations.

What is he so anti about? He is against adding other official genders than the biological ones we have at birth. But he isn't against people wanting to be called whatever they want in informal situations. And he is against trans surgery at young ages when children aren't fully grown and adult enough to make such drastic interventions. But he is not against adult people wanting to be whatever they want.

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