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

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Post by ergocoder »

0x3f wrote: post #165
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.

But nobody is going to just gift him the same valuation on the next company. It's not like his execution is OpenAI's moat right now. So where would he be going that's a better deal for him?

Founding his own company would be one alternative. Full control. No stigma on the non-profit part. Probably get the same paper money as he got now at OpenAI.

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Post by walterbell »

ronanfarrow wrote: post #60
almostdeadguy wrote: post #54

Seems this got buried from the front page very quickly

There is dwindling space for sincere independent accountability reporting on big tech like this to a) be created, since it's incredibly resource-intensive and so many resources flow from Silicon Valley, and b) actually reach people, since more platforms are now owned or otherwise influenced by interested parties. Thank you for looking. Please do spread this kind of reporting in your communities, and subscribe to inve…

> OpenAI has closed many of its safety-focussed teams

A paper with "ideas to keep people first" was (coincidentally?) published today:

  • Worker perspectives
  • AI-first entrepreneurs
  • Right to AI
  • Accelerate grid expansion
  • Accelerate scientific discovery and scale the benefits. 

  • Modernize the tax base
  • Public Wealth Fund
  • Efficiency dividends
  • Adaptive safety nets that work for everyone
  • Portable benefits

  • Pathways into human-centered work
https://openai.com/index/industrial-policy-for-the-intellige...

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

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Post by rounce »

jamiequint wrote: post #65
brightbeige wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He’s replying on this twitter thread - perhaps someone with an account can ask there and link his comment here? https://xcancel.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532#m

Here is the actual link, not a link to some weird third-party site that can't be trusted. https://x.com/RonanFarrow/status/2041127882429206532

FYI xcancel is just a mirror that allows reading replies without needing an account.

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

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Post by ytoawwhra92 »

morleytj wrote: post #166

Wow, this is an incredibly detailed piece. Really in depth reporting and the kind of detailed investigation we need more of on important topics like this. > "Employees now call this moment “the Blip,” after an incident in the Marvel films in which characters disappear from existence and then return, unchanged, to a world profoundly altered by their absence." This is a very small detail, but an instinctive grimace cro…

They're mass media cynically produced to extract maximum profit from lowest common denominator audiences, so the idea that people working in such influential positions find them appealing enough to reference suggests they are members of that lowest common denominator audience.

The people shaping the future have no taste.

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

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Post by einrealist »

I don't trust anyone who claims that LLMs today are superhumanly intelligent. All they do is perform compute-intensive brute-force attacks on the problem/solution space and call it 'reasoning', all while subsidising the real costs to capture the market. So much SciFi BS and extrapolation about a technology that is useful if adopted with care.

This technology needs to become a commodity to destroy this aggregation of power between a few organizations with untrustworthy incentives and leadership.

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Post by danparsonson »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #187
383toast wrote: post #174

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

It's the golden rule of news article headlines: if the headline is a question, the answer to it is always a negative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
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