The Contradictions of Sam Altman
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#3Looks like the media has chosen Sam Altman as the next Elon Musk.
This makes sense. He perfectly fits their cliche of a socially-awkward technologist, and he's trusting (foolish?) enough to make complex nuanced statements in public, which they can easily mine for out-of-context clickbait and vilification fodder.
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#4I think there are some interesting questions:
- Sam does not have equity in OpenAI. Does this mean he can potentially be removed at any point in time?
- OpenAI's profit arm will funnel excess profit to its non-profit wing. If this is the case, who determines excess profit?
- OpenAI's founding charter commits the company to abandoning research efforts if another project nears AGI development. If this happens, what happens to the profit arm?
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#5https://archive.ph/YTOeD
Sidenote: I just reported to archive.is that it would be great to have the capability to render it throught services such as Pocket.
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#6Meh, the contradiction seems to be that creating a source of power, be it via a physical or virtual means is different. It is not. A tool, is and always will be, a tool.
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#7I believe you can't, at the same time, accuse OpenAI of benefitting of ideas mostly invented elsewhere, and also claim that they are in a predominant position. It does not make any sense, and they are not naturally positioned for a monopoly. Just other companies have to move their asses.
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#8OpenAI getting rich now everyone wants a piece and everyone fighting over it like a billion dollar inheretence fight. In a round about way, if GPT5 is nearly as advertised, watch the govt swoop in under national security guise
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#9How did he become so rich? His Wikipedia page does not have much details on this.
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#10Looks like the media has chosen Sam Altman as the next Elon Musk. This makes sense. He perfectly fits their cliche of a socially-awkward technologist, and he's trusting (foolish?) enough to make complex nuanced statements in public, which they can easily mine for out-of-context clickbait and vilification fodder.
What would make him "socially-awkward"?