This is just me continuing conversation - not a refusal of your right to moderate how you want. So don't take it as me trying to flame you. Hopefully you can take it like an adult. It's opinion and a direct philosophical exploration that you may find confrontational -- but the difficulty is not the point; the point is to speak the truth.

I think you're being disingenuous again. I have incredibly high standards of ethics and morals for myself. Those standards do not only include some idea of conformity to norms but a commitment I made to myself to always offer a public rebuttal of norms which I have come to understand are harmful and -- increasingly -- various forms of insanity which have become normal themselves. One of those forms of insanity being the fellating of the billionaire-class whose actions, ethics, and systems/architecture of power have exceeded Bond villain status and gone right into unimaginable depravity. Alexander Karp gleefully bragging about killing people automatically with his code. Elon Musk gleefully doing a Nazi salute, signaling that he believes in racial superiority, murder, and authoritarianism as long as it benefits himself. Peter Thiel just this week making an argument in about 5 sentences that the best way to be good is to be evil. Literally his words.

These are not normal times, there are BAD BAD BAD things happening, and despite the utter level of lunacy - sometimes manifesting as literal atrocity as when another billionare, Trump, glibly murdered 160 school girls in an elementary school, in an attempted show of bravado... despite all this, people walk around on autopilot like this is all okay, and that sometimes takes the form of unthinkingly parroting the billionaire class's "company line" - that AI is actually completely harmless.

To such sleepwalkers, I have decided, that strong language is a good tool in the campaign of waking people up.

I say all this to illustrate to you that what may look like juvenile word choice is in fact coming from a high standard -- beyond conformity, I dare to rock the boat BECAUSE that is what is needed.

So your challenge/accusation dies on its merits. My commitment to excellent standards of ethics is higher than yours. Your pearl-clutching analysis of the behavior as instantly and incontrovertibly wrong or low-standard is predicated on a juvenile sense of right and wrong that can only be characterized as both authoritarian and puritanian. And furthermore it is a mask. Those "standards" are not ethical in nature, they exist to serve YC.

YC, who we know has been in bed with every single one of the insane people I've just mentioned. (And Sam Altman who I didn't name drop - but he is not only leading the charge on the technological dismantling of the middle class and so many norms via OpenAI, but he also raped his sister.)

So, don't presume to lecture me about ethical standards, you are plainly in no position to do so.

What you are ACTUALLY doing is maintaining an image of this community that serves your/YC's commercial interests.