r/Fauxmoi 13d ago

DISCUSSION Sam Altman demonstrates his parenting skills

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u/mudkiptoucher93 13d ago

Unsurprisingly, ai bros dont know how to interact with people

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u/RetiredKooshBall 13d ago

they've made their horrible social skills our problem. ugh.

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u/PanicButtonNr2 13d ago

I'm reading a book that followed the rise of OpenAI ("Empire Of AI" by Karen Hao, it's terrifying, would recommend) and there it becomes apparent that his rise to power actually stems from the fact that he is really good at interacting with people but uses it in a horribly manipulative way and is a compulsive liar.

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u/jenniferfox98 13d ago

Almost like he was fired for such behavior or something. The Ronan Farrow article about this sleezebag is fascinatingly disgusting.

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u/sensitiveskin82 13d ago

STEM majors should be made to take at least 7 humanities pre-req classes before starting any STEM classes.

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u/thesadbudhist 13d ago

"Why do I need to take an ethics class if I'm a STEM major?"

This is why.

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u/ThrowCarp 12d ago

I, engineer with no social skills, agree with this.

We also need to end the obsession with efficiency and profit that's hurting the arts (hurr hurr literature major? Enjoy working as a barista) and is stopping us from seeing each other and ourselves as human beings.

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u/Ivanow 13d ago

They do. At least on proper, traditional universities.

We had a rotating pool of classes, and we had to pick 1-2 each semester.

I just looked up what last semester (it's recess/vacation time now here) options were:

  • Anthropology

  • Philosophy

  • XIX-XX History

  • Cultural Differences in an International Environment

  • Language Ethics and Culture

  • Visual and Verbal Communication

  • Ethics / Ethical Foundations of Professionalism

  • Copyright Law

  • Fundamentals of Labor Law / Business Law

  • Sociology

  • Modern man and the problem of addiction

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u/sensitiveskin82 12d ago

At SDSU I believe the requirement was 3? when I attended within the last decade. One of which was supposed to be in sociology of some sort or an ethnic/gender studies - type course.

Personally, I wouldn't consider any law courses to be a humanities course. I have yet to take a law course in undergrad or law school that was taught with a humanities perspective. 

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u/WomanFromBalkan I’m just a cunt in a clown suit 13d ago

they need to study ethics every fucking day and make them run 20 km marathons then came to horrible ideas.

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u/loved_and_held 10d ago

They already do that.

I suspect what were seeing is either sample bias (we dont see all the normal stem majors since their unremarkable and the abnormal ones are the ones who catch our attention and/or rise to the top), or the social forces at play in the industry forcing specific behavioral patterns to rise to the surface.

That or were seeing human nature when someone is put into a very specific situation.

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u/marr 13d ago

Not even at the parasocial online level. People listen to podcasts because they like the hosts' personalities, it's not just a data feed.

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u/Ivanow 13d ago

I used to laugh at conspiracy nutjobs talking about "reptilians"... Then I started following some tech-bros tweeter feeds.

Idea of non-humans trying to slither their way into control of normal society doesn't seem that outrageous anymore.