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He's CEO of a large American company. Whether the company succeeds or fails, he'll be left with more money than most people see in their life. It's not make-or-break for him.
The thing about Altman is that he actually believes in what he’s doing.
Ultra wealthy ideologues are extremely dangerous because they think their wealth means they’re morally correct.
He'd have to be dumb as fuck to think LLMs will change the future in any meaningful way. It's like saying chiropractics will change medicine forever. Dude's a salesman like any other, he's out to scam people and be a burden on society.
It’s the same pattern as social media followed over a decade ago. Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey were always claiming their services were going to change the world for the better.
Both of their services (Facebook and Twitter, respectively) have been used for organizing fascism and hate because hate is extremely profitable and they would rather have money than make the world a better place.
They have ultimately, actively changed the world for the worse.
( B ) DOUBT
"Universal Extreme Wealth" is so ironic. Wealth is always relative. For one to be considered wealthy, someone else has to be not.
How about everyone being able to live nicely, with the basics covered? Universal Extreme Wealth is such a dystopian capitalist bait, it grosses me out.
I’d like to hear how this universal extreme wealth is supposed to actually manifest itself on a regular folks who lose their jobs to the AI craze.
As long as the people with money want to believe him, he'll have infinite money on tap.
We plan to be a wildly successful company, but if we get it wrong, that’s on us.
That's incorrect. If OpenAI get this wrong, they won't (be able to) make investor whole. People would loose part of their savings if they're exposed to OpenAI through direct or indirect investments.
Even if they get it right, everyone suffers from the pollution caused by AI datacenters, and from the opportunity cost since investors are pouring resources in this hyped technology rather than more reponsible things like renewables, energy efficiency, ...
From the tens of thousands of heds I've written, I'm aware. I keep them intact here because to do otherwise would invite complaints of bias.
I fucking detest question heds on news for the same reason as Betteridge. I don't write them myself. Basically, once I'm done reading a story and realize we have a question hed on our hands, I'll spike for further reporting.
However, this is not news, but rather commentary. Not many columnists get to write their own heds, as the desk handles that. (of course I wrote my own, since I was also the page designer)
Lol. Lmao even
I have said it before and I will likely say it again, Sam Altman is the Rasputin of Silicon Valley.