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Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

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Re: Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

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post #5

I can't help but think that this is due to Musk putting pressure on the current administration to help him win his lawsuit and punish Altman.

Personal vendettas between the world's most powerful psychopaths playing out in the stock market while everyone else suffers does seem like the current meta. So it makes sense.

How does everyone else suffer? We’re getting subsidized compute.

Re: Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

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post #8

So, the protection racket is not working? [1] Maybe some folks need to re-think whether this administration is worth "donating" to? [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...

Are you complaining that government is not corrupt enough?

He's saying "hey, maybe stop donating to Republicans expecting them to help you out when in reality they will screw over anyone but themselves and especially don't donate to them when the GOP is aggressively homophobic and wants to get rid of your existence entirely"

Re: Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

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post #8

So, the protection racket is not working? [1] Maybe some folks need to re-think whether this administration is worth "donating" to? [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...

Are you complaining that government is not corrupt enough?

That seems like a fairly obvious misreading of the comment.

Re: Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

#16
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Personal vendettas between the world's most powerful psychopaths playing out in the stock market while everyone else suffers does seem like the current meta. So it makes sense.

How does everyone else suffer? We’re getting subsidized compute.

Look around at the country right now

Re: Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

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post #8

So, the protection racket is not working? [1] Maybe some folks need to re-think whether this administration is worth "donating" to? [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump...

This story is about congressmen and state attorneys calling for an SEC investigation, not the executive

Which was motivated by a WSJ investigation into Sam’s personal dealings https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-openai-ipo-altman-029ae6...

Re: Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO

#20

Does anyone really believe this is more than performative? Increasingly the most likely outcome of such scrutiny is… nothing. He hasn’t stolen enough from the rich to earn any sort of punishment, and he’s not doing anything too different from the Congress critters that are “investigating” him.

"hasn’t stolen enough from the rich to earn any sort of punishment". Do you truly believe this is how the world works?
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