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He said "All you had to do was pay us enough to live"

And this was caused not by a homeless or unemployed.

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Filming himself doing something that will get him years or even decades in prison suggests he wasn’t exactly of completely sound mind when he did that.

Similar here with the guy going straight from the crime scene to OpenAI HQ to get caught

I’d be curious to hear your opinion on things like Patrick Henry’s “Give me liberty or give me death” speech then. I’m not defending the violence in this case, to be sure, but like, in general, I disagree that violence is always the irrational choice.

My point is violence can be rational but you should at least attempt to get away with it, so you can carry on afterwards.

It's hard to effect any sort of change from a prison cell, violent or otherwise, so it's irrational to deliberately get yourself locked up if your aim is to change things

Perhaps he felt a jail cell would offer him a better life than what he was getting in society.

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