Honestly have never heard of this person. Why does HN care so much that he joined OpenAI?
Why I Joined OpenAI
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#182that is a very long attempt at backwards rationalisation
just say it's for the money, people understand that
but this sort of post is simply gross
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#183> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)
If you trust what the executives of OpenAI and Anthropic say about their respective projects, its a die roll as to whether or not they will totally destroy the world. A theme of the last 5-10 years has been tech dropping the whitewashing of their reputation and embracing the idea that they what they are doing is incredibly sociopathic and still somehow cool (to them, I guess). Guess not everyone got the memo.
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#184> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)
The AI train is going with or without you, if you can be part of it and improve the situaton, why not.
Interesting disconnect from AI people saying AI is inevitable, but if we’re involved we can mitigate the harshest negative outcomes. Not sure that follows and I don’t think there’s any reason to believe that.
It’s just a kind of lazy fatalistic nihilism. I worry about the world and think that these adult children who were told “no” during the pandemic have let their worst misanthropic tendencies flourish. They are indoctrinated in a belief that “you can just do things” for “you can just do things” sake.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
He interviewed everywhere and took the biggest offer. Good! Don’t piss on my face and tell me it’s raining.
It's raining anyway. If I piss on your face, I can at least try to make the experience as positive as possible for you.
I apologize for the obscenity. I hope it's clear that I was trying to make a point in relation to the article.
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#186> it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet. I have joined OpenAI to work on this challenge directly. I couldn't go on reading.
Reminds me of the TechCrunch episode of Silicon Valley TV show. Everyone was there to make the big buck but all collectively pretended they were doing their work for the good of humankind. This guy and Rob Pike should have a talk.
Why Rob Pike in particular? Most stuff I've read from him was nuts-and-bolts technical.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably because "making the world a better place" has been a trope used so much in the industry that it's made it to a TV show [1]. It's fine to be passionate about your job. It's fine to be paid well. You don't need to make us believe that you're mother Theresa on top of it. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
You should stop using mother theresa this way.
Why?
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#188> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)
Surely, this time Capitalisms external costs will be solved by me making as much money as possible.
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#189> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)
Probably because "making the world a better place" has been a trope used so much in the industry that it's made it to a TV show [1]. It's fine to be passionate about your job. It's fine to be paid well. You don't need to make us believe that you're mother Theresa on top of it. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso
Its beyond trope, its a cult. https://people.howstuffworks.com/zizians.htm
Theil, Musk. Theyre all deluded that their Wealth and AI are saviors.
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#190> ...it's not just about saving costs – it's about saving the planet There's something that doesn't sit right with me about this statement, and I'm not sure what it is. Are you sure you didn't just join for the money? (edit: cool problems, too)
Even a 25% reduction in resource usage will probably not be enough, AI datacenters are still a huge resource sink after all
Itll basically be the same treadmill as the "just one more lane" fallacy DoTs keep falling for.