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> In this case the woman is obviously mostly writing this because she doesn't like OpenAI specifically, but she has an argument and it is a good one.

Until the same measures are uniformly taken with the rest of the actors in the industry, this is nothing more than virtue signalling.

Denouncing X should also mean denouncing actors close to X, for a given domain space F(actor).



"Virtue signaling" is moving the Overton window. The far-right got very far with it, so do not dismiss it. Every journey starts with a first step.


> Denouncing X should also mean denouncing actors close to X, for a given domain space F(actor).

Nobody has time for that.

For example, one common target for activists is Nestlé. Most people barely have time to think about Nestlé at all, and of those who do, I think most are oblivious that e.g. Maggi is a brand that Nestlé owns.

I could probably do this XKCD but about activists and company names instead of geochemists and olivine/feldspar/quartz: https://xkcd.com/2501/




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