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We already invented AGI in the form of corporations, but the alignment problem hasn't been solved yet, to the annoyance of some of the GI subcomponents.
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Connections at that level don't mean a lot because sitting on the same philanthropy boards is a form of networking, it'd be like finding them on the same Discord server, in terms of significance and the number of links you could make that way.
Of course, but both Toner and McCauley are on the same boards with the same handful of organizations (Centre for Governance of AI, Centre for Effective Altruism, OpenAI) and Toner (and her coworkers/managers like former OpenAI Board Member Holden Karnofsky) both managed grantmaking from OpenPhilanthropy to the organizations above. If you're working together in that many organizations you will end up having a working…
The story of Silicon Valley summed up nicely.
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Of course, but both Toner and McCauley are on the same boards with the same handful of organizations (Centre for Governance of AI, Centre for Effective Altruism, OpenAI) and Toner (and her coworkers/managers like former OpenAI Board Member Holden Karnofsky) both managed grantmaking from OpenPhilanthropy to the organizations above. If you're working together in that many organizations you will end up having a working…
How did Tasha McCauley know Dustin Moskovitz?
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I'm a firm believer that greed triumphs over any other possible explanation about why things happen to be the way they are (not that I like it but true is true). So, I'm not surprised in the least that most OpenAI's (and everywhere else's) engineers follow the most profitable path. It's a delusion to think that the creation of an AGI is something that could be prevented, or that it could be prevented so easily (by fi…
I don't think it's greed to want to raise a family in a good neighborhood and provide your children with opportunities. Or pay for your parents medical appointments. Or not want to work well into your 80's. If that's greed then everyone is "greedy".
Are the operating agreement or partnership agreement of OpenAI GP or OpenAI Global, LLC publicly available? And the actual licensing agreement between OpenAI and Microsoft isn't public, is it? The reporting on this is so bad and contradictory. Without knowing for sure what these documents actually say, it's impossible to speak authoritatively about what's going on and how it will shake out. That said, generally a maj…
For LLCs, fiduciary duties can be, and often are, waived under Delaware law.