That's just trivially true, isn't it? Among women who were already pre-selected to have similar faces, ages and BMI's to movie starts most of them can be made extremely attractive, with the help of right makeup, clothes, context and so on.

I would think so, but people seem to disagree!

I didn't select their photos because they were successful actors, I selected them because they're the celebrities I see cited as extraordinary on the internet, and because they either appear at the top of popular surveys for most attractive women, or are the most viewed women on deepfake websites. 

Of course, for any category of women you put up there - instagram models, regular models, onlyfans models, actors, singers - you're gonna get the response "Ah, but those aren't the prettiest women!" Fair enough, but I suspect that if you or romeo left an example of a particular woman you find more attractive than Ana de Armas, you'd find that actually a large proportion of observers disagree with you and like Ana de Armas more. My thesis is not that you can't find a woman that you find significantly prettier than her, but that it's very hard to find a woman who broadly and significantly more appealing. 

Also, I feel like what you and Romeo are saying is not actually incompatible with the broader point? It's a little like if I said that height was normally distributed, and as evidence I pointed out that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was only 1.5 feet taller than the average human, and someone went "But the tallest person in human history, Robert Wadlow, was 8 foot 11 inches!" If these women are so rare that they can't leverage their attractiveness into fame or professional success, and they don't seem to be the ones mating with high status men, then of what use is it?

An enormous, unconscionable amount of information shared on Twitter/"TPOT" is like this. Plausible sounding anecdotes that get stretched and pixelated through legions of cross-platform and intra-platform quote-tweeting. 

A good friend of mine works for a company called Outflank, where they basically develop "legal" malware for red teamers to use during sanctioned tests of organizations' security. He does not have a standard ML background, but for work he recently created an RL environment for training LLMs to generate shellcode that bypasses EDR/antivirus, which they use to great success. He wrote a blog post about it here and gave a related talk at DEFCON this month.

Normies probably underestimate the significance of being able to bypass EDR very quickly and cheaply. This is very critical security control in a large organization where you expect some proportion of your workforce to download malware at regular intervals. Training small models to do these kinds of tasks is possible on a shoestring budget well within the means of black hat organizations, and I expect them to start doing this sort of thing regularly within the next ~year or so.

I actually find that they do appear in the New York Times and other newspapers a lot.

He'd have to be insane or incredibly psychopathic

Unfortunately I think this is a misunderstanding of what a psychopath is. 

Okay, but... why.  Why do you think that.  Is there a reason you think that, which other people could inspect your reasoning on, which is more viewable than unenumerated "complaints"?  Again, I believe the complaints exist.  How many, order of magnitude?  Were they all from unique complainants?

I hate to be indelicate, but are you insane? It's a goddamn web forum, not the ICC. The mods got complaints about a users' behavior and they banned him. They can't run a focus group to see how everybody feels about the situation first. 

I have not read this post yet (I assume it's about more than just Said), but just to be clear: I personally trust you guys to ban people that are worth banning without writing thousands of words about it.

I don't think it's due to evolution or material conditions. I think it's cultural and goes back to the rise of Christianity...

I think basically every time someone has a story like this it's wrong. I don't understand why people seem so eager to blame cultural forces for ubiquitous behavior in this fashion. I guess it makes humans seem more interesting.