My right to flag comments was previously unfairly taken away from me. Maybe if I still had this right, I would've just flagged and moved on, but I didn't have this right. I don't even know why it was taken away.
If "Condolences, he seems to have been a principled person" is flaggable to you, then I think you may be letting some very strong beliefs or biases cloud your judgement.
Oh it's only the "thoughtful" part that is flaggable to me. The rest is fine.
Think about it... this dude allegedly died by suicide letting his beliefs and his hate of AI cloud his judgment (because he didn't get his way of crushing OpenAI).
Even thoughtful people can be wrong, make mistakes, or have lapses in judgement. Nobody is perfect, we all have flaws.
Edit: Heck, even by definition, "thoughtful" doesn't mean "accurate". You can put a lot of thought and consideration into something and still end up with a different viewpoint than your neighbor. That's okay, that's life.
Edit 2: "Didn't get his way"? He was part of an ongoing trial that hadn't concluded yet, so it hadn't been decided whether or not he "got his way". Setting that very obvious fact aside, we have no idea what he actually wanted or hoped for here, or from in life in general, or why he made this final decision, and to suggest otherwise is about as "thoughtful" as you insinuate he was.
The word "thoughtful" can carry different meanings. It can have a literal meaning (as in "deliberate") which you resonate with, and a different meaning (as in "solicitous" toward AI) that I resonate with. Neither meaning is wrong.
Oof, are you using a thesaurus to determine the definition of a word? That's what a dictionary is for; a thesaurus is a list of words that have similar or opposite meanings. But within that, there are varying degrees of how similar/different words can be.
In point of fact, Merriam-Webster doesn't mark "solicitous" as having the strongest degree of similarity to the word, which means we can't easily conflate the two because they're not quite the same thing. Further, for the "solicitous" word you cherry-picked, it says that thoughtful means "given to or made with heedful anticipation of the needs and happiness of others".
That means that for the sake of the conversation with regard to the decedent, the word "thoughtful" as used by GP is still very vague. He thought about other people, simple as that.
Preceding the use of that word as an example, it clearly says "having thoughts" as the definition. Between the blog he posted, the interview he gave, and the fact that he was assisting an active investigation, I'd say that he both "had some thoughts" and "heeded AI".
Again, we're back to the fact that you're suggesting that it's cool to flag a simple "condolences" comment just because you disagree with how the decedent viewed the world.
If I had seen the thesaurus and dictionary links before posting, I would not have posted at all. I however maintain that this guy failed to see the big picture of AI, letting his judgment get clouded by a stupid IP law that serves capitalist publishers at the expense of the people. I speculate that he let this hate of AI bother him so much that he could no longer live. Extinction is the fate that awaits all those who come in the way of AI.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."
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