OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s home targeted with molotov cocktail
www.theguardian.com
Suspect arrested but not identified and has allegedly made similar threats to OpenAI’s San Francisco headquarters

As we don’t have a top level post about this already (nor on reddit) I thought why not make one. Archive.is

Extremely likely the guy was a lesswronger, or at least radicalized by that sort of thinking.

But not much else seems to be known as far as I can tell. Corbin also posted about the HN reactions in the stubsack.

And remember, no fed posting.

Edit: looks like his house also got shot. Archive (after the speculation in this thread, makes you wonder if this was a follow up false flag, as the bottle didn’t break last time).

  • rookEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Stolen shamelessly from a followers-only post, so I’m assuming that the originator would prefer me not to give them credit.

    alt-text

    An exponential graph, of the kind so beloved by techbros, in a vaguely ms-painty style with time as the x-axis and “number of arson attacks on sam altman’s mansion” as the y-axis, and showing a predicted “arson singularity” point in the near future.