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I seem to recall Musk saying something about OpenAI being over-valued/under-funded earlier this year. Of course he was summarily booed off the stage by the startup crowd.
nikkwong
He says a lot of things. Just because some of them end up being true by happenstance doesn't make him a prophet.
watwut
As he should be booed off the stages in any respectable society. Regardless of whether he is right or wrong about ai.
etamponi
> I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

This is _actually_ what a respectable society does.

myvoiceismypass
Who are you to regulate my booing? Free speech for me, not for thee?
etamponi
Very simple: if booing is used to prevent another person from being heard/being able to properly articulate their ideas in public, that's a violation of _their_ freedom of speech.

Again, I might have misunderstood what booing means though (which explains the downvotes at least...)

brazukadev
booing is also covered by free speech.
etamponi
I might be misunderstanding what booing means then. My understanding is covering another person's voice with shouts in order to sabotage his speech. It might indeed be part of what some society might define free speech, but I'd consider it more of a coward form of violence.

If with "booing" you mean "disrespect whatever good idea a person has because it also has very bad ideas", then I wonder who we will end up respecting. Even I have ideas I end up discovering bad. Should I boo myself and ignore everything else I say?

If I am missing another definition of booing then I am sorry.

techgnosis
That is exactly what booing is, but citizens are allowed to boo. I can boo you, you can boo me. If you are booing me then I can walk away, and likewise you can walk away from me. If I'm booing you during a public performance that is indeed rude but then I need to be thrown out by security, which is perfectly allowed and expected.

Citizens, i.e each other, are not the problem when it comes to free speech, ever. The only entity which needs to be defended against is the entity that has a monopoly on violence, which is of course the government.

nickthegreek
> but I'd consider it more of a coward form of violence.

Booing being a form of violence is the hottest take i’ve seen this week.

myvoiceismypass
> I'd consider it more of a coward form of violence

If you think that the act of booing is a form of violence, then what do you think about _actual_ hate speech?

watwut
Well Elon Musk is working hard to suppress freedom of others and openly supports authoritarian movements.

Using free speech to boo him when he is getting celebrated is defending free speech.

inglor_cz
Musk managed to attract so much negative attention that he is going to be booed no matter what.

I happen to agree with him re OpenAI...

wmf
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI over the for-profit conversion so that clouds his judgement.

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