What are cancer cells, but a subset of cells whose modus operandi transgresses our values? They're not some unique abomination, and I think the analogy is apt.
Without this kind of food production maybe we'd have 50% the carrying capacity, but 20% of the actual population. What's your utility function? Is it the total happiness function that requires us to reproduce as much as possible even if conditions are shit, or is it the average happiness per person?
What about those three million people his systems helped murder? They had children. Half of them were children. Do those count? Where was your comment then?
Many of those achievements were achieved through physical violence. The 5-day work week, for example. We don't work 7 days because people kept shooting bosses until the bosses agreed to compromise on 5 days.
They could have chosen the target that was most available to them. Or they could feel particularly wronged by Sam Altman. Maybe they have Iranian friends.
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