[HN Gopher] Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanit...
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       Brazil bans Sam Altman's tech firm Tools for Humanity from paying
       for iris scans
        
       Author : ivanleoncz
       Score  : 77 points
       Date   : 2025-01-26 21:40 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (economictimes.indiatimes.com)
        
       | RedditUsername wrote:
       | If someone told me Altman was the antichrist I might believe
       | them.
       | 
       | On a more serious note, why do these billionaires never want to
       | solve problems at home? Altman was born in Chicago and raised in
       | St Louis, is there no problems in Chicago or St Louis he feels
       | like he should help with? Bill Gates spent his entire life in
       | Washington and Microsoft has been a titan in Washington for long
       | as the tech industry has existed. Curing Malaria is cool but is
       | there nothing in Seattle that he can contribute to?
        
         | JumpCrisscross wrote:
         | > _Curing Malaria is cool but is there nothing in Seattle that
         | he can contribute to?_
         | 
         | Nothing in this sentence gave you pause for a second thought?
         | Would you replace Jonas Salk with a community garden?
         | 
         | The criticism of Altman is apt because he hasn't achieved
         | anything of definitive social value. (Not in a way someone else
         | wouldn't have on a similar timeline.) Equating anything he's
         | done to the eradication of malaria is pure scope failure.
        
           | perihelions wrote:
           | Maybe let's not feed green-account trolls with words of
           | calculated malice.
        
             | JumpCrisscross wrote:
             | > _let 's not feed green-account trolls with words of
             | calculated malice_
             | 
             | Let's "assume good faith" and "respond to the strongest
             | plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker
             | one that's easier to criticize" [1].
             | 
             | They may be a troll, or an idiot. Or they may be reflecting
             | an increasingly-prevalent view that people should stick to
             | their "own" territory, for various definitions of "own."
             | (Whether this fuel anti-immigrant xenophobia,
             | colonist/coloniser moral binaries, or the dismissal or a
             | disease eradicator.)
             | 
             | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        
         | atonse wrote:
         | Through their work, the gates foundation has probably saved
         | millions of lives, maybe tens of millions of lives, over the
         | past 20 years.
         | 
         | They've also been deeply involved with various education
         | reforms in the US. They're definitely active here.
        
         | simonw wrote:
         | Seattle is home to ~750,000 people. Malaria affects
         | ~250,000,000 people a year.
        
       | nostradumbasp wrote:
       | Concerning isn't even the word. Looks like those military
       | contracts and all that government money has really heated things
       | up for OpenAI's goals for human civilization.
        
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