Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?

Post by lokar » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

dolebirchwood wrote: post #173

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #164

> Amodei, in one of his early notes, recalled pressing Brockman on his priorities and Brockman replying that he wanted “money and power.” Brockman disputes this. His diary entries from this time suggest conflicting instincts. One reads, “Happy to not become rich on this, so long as no one else is.” In another, he asks, “So what do I really want?” Among his answers is “Financially what will take me to $1B.” I can't im…

Sociopaths don't have much going for them in life other than winning status games.

Post by hellojimbo » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

0x3f wrote: post #130

ninjahawk1 wrote: post #125

OpenAI is like #3 or #4 of the AI companies right now in terms of power, and last place in the court of public opinion. I’d be more concerned about Anthropic both being in the good graces of the public and having access to all of our computers indirectly with Claude Code.

OpenAI has ~30x the userbase of Anthropic.

Post by mikeyouse » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:26 PM UTC

IrishTechie wrote: post #88

FloorEgg wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I’ve often thought about a model like this and would love to see a few news outlets run it as a pilot and see how it stacks up.

Post by hungryhobbit » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:27 PM UTC

383toast wrote: post #174

if you have to ask if someone can be trusted, they usually can't

Post by ergocoder » Mon, Apr 06, 2026, 11:30 PM UTC

raincole wrote: post #158

ergocoder wrote: post #139

I wonder if Sam might abandon the ship soon. Other co-founders already did. The main reason is that he gets all the downsides without the upsides. I know $5B is a lot but, for a 700B company, it isn't. If OpenAI was a regular for-profit, he would have been worth >$100B already. This is probably one of the significant factors why other co-founders left too. It's just a lot of headaches with relatively low reward.

And OpenAI's influence is hugely exaggerated compared to, say, Google.