• supernight52@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    More like- just a rich douche seeing the way the wind is blowing, and is getting out before the guillotines are built.

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      6 days ago

      A quick skim of the article, he also cites how the US doesn’t believe in vaccines and that trump is a train wreck. That said, he did make the quote and is a rich douche so…. Point stands

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        6 days ago

        As far as rich douches go, James Cameron is probably one of the cleaner ones.

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            5 days ago

            I think the opinion of those that have worked with him would be most relevant to that.

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              That’s probably the one area where he comes off most as a douche. He’s notoriously demanding to work with

              He also, earlier on, had a history of less safe practices

              But I’d put him as one of the few wealthy people that actually created something others can’t. His movies are a creation of his own. Not the result of inevitable scientific advancement

              OpenAI/ChatGPT was the result inevitable scientific advancement. The game changer was a publicly published academic paper (by a Google researcher), not anything Sam Altman or OpenAI did. Same can be said about a lot of modern products that created our wealthiest billionaires

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                5 days ago

                His movies are a creation of his own. Not the result of inevitable scientific advancement

                Are you seriously claiming that Cameron made his movies without scientific advancements? Cameron used the result of hundreds of technical advancements and patents in order to make his movies. He didn’t invent movie-making.

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                Every one of us profits from a system that exploits workers. There are workers who can’t even get online, they’re suffering more than you, and what little you have is partly due to their underpaid efforts.

                Don’t let imperfection be the enemy of good. We’re all a part of a system that exploits others, so that can’t be any useful metric as it paints everyone.

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                  4 days ago

                  K so I’m going to continue to be pissed at some asshole coming to our country with no loyalty or desire to be American, exploiting our labor, and fucking off when it gets bad.

                  I hope he gets to live long enough for it to come to his door.