Jasmine Sun
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1,088 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jun
Jasmine Sun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was also a discord lurker, very young as well.
And I think that it also reflects the fact that political violence in the U.S.
has become more prominent.
And that's something that political science researchers have found too.
both when they look at the incidence of political violence, but also when they poll the public on, do you ever think assassination is justified?
Do you think that violence is justified?
And now, whether you poll for right-wing figures or left-wing figures, you get numbers like 10% to 20% of Americans think that assassination attempts are justified when they're directed as people who you think are bad people, whether that is Nancy Pelosi's husband or whether that is Donald Trump or whether that is the UnitedHealthcare CEO.
And so the thing that I notice with, you know, Sam Altman's attackers, like with the other attackers, is that these are young people who have developed a pretty nihilistic politics, whose views might be increasingly extreme as a result of participating in online communities where people kind of reinforce each other's beliefs really quickly in the cycle, and who also believe that they have no other outlet but political violence.
I think that when I think about the resentment that people feel or...
why do crazy things like this happen?
Like, I am no fan of political violence.
You know, like, why would someone do something like this?
What I really see is these people no longer believe that the democratic system works.
They do not believe they have any other channel to, quote unquote, have a voice or to shape the direction of what happens to politics, what happens to the economy.
And they see direct action, in this case, direct violent action as the only way of making their voice heard in order to stop some of the changes they think are coming.
I mean, I see this at a lesser scale with things like data center protests or something like that.
It's like, you know, a lot of my friends in the AI industry, for example, think that the data center protests are really stupid.
Like they're like, data centers are the wrong target.
If you are worried about AI safety, you should pursue regulation or something.
But I'm like,
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