Because he genuinely believes if he doesn't do it the next guy will do it worse.

reticulates 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There’s an astounding level of arrogance required to believe he is somehow uniquely capable of bringing about a technology especially considering Anthropic came after OpenAI where he worked.

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0xDEAFBEAD 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Beating OpenAI is not exactly a high bar here: https://www.openaifiles.org/

I don't think it is particularly egotistical to say that you can be a more ethical CEO than Sam Altman.

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esseph 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Place yourself at the head of one of like 3 companies the entire rest of the world has been taking about nonstop for 4+ years now. You can move forward or you stop. If you move forward you get to have a hand in how stuff turns out and you make a gajillion dollars. If you stop, it's somebody else's hand in stuff, and you don't get to make a gajillion dollars. And if you shut it all down? Then you just cede to the competition. Everything happens anyway.

What's your play?

	▲	8note 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the obvious play is to get the government to shut down all the competition, and then make a gajillion dollars while making whatever at the worst level of effort that destroys the world anyways. ---- the real play is using the accumulated power to get socialism and democratic control over the key aspects of the economy, such as where to build data centers, and how many. Nothing says you have to play the corporate game of competition

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fooblaster 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The outcome is the same!

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mbesto 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He can both believe that AND be the slime mold chief. His rationale doesn't excuse it - and worse this all degrades into a "trust me bro" situation.

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ActionHank 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dude probably sleeps on a bed worth more than your networth.

You have no frame of context to understand his intent or legitimate worries.

The only applicable perspectives are to trust or apply logic. It is foolish to trust someone you don’t know who stands to benefit from lying to you.

Logic dictates that given the ungodly sum of money he stands to gain, he will lie to everyone who will listen.

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esseph 8 hours ago | parent [-]

> Dude probably sleeps on a bed worth more than your networth.

I never understand shit like this coming out of people's mouths. Never.

It's not a judge of actual Worth as a human being, it's not a judge of capability or competence or ethics. It's not a judge of actual skill or ability. It doesn't make them a better cook, a better spouse, a better parent or lover. It doesn't make them more dangerous or more skilled at anything.

It makes them financially wealthy for at least a set period of time.

Cancer and time and 5.56mm still impact them the same way as every else.

It's Pharaoh worship psychology nonsense, and it's fucking embarassing to read.

	▲	ActionHank 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think you’re misreading. No worship here. Just pointing out that it’s foolish to think anyone in the position is even remotely thinking about anyone but themselves.
	▲	8note 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		so uhh, you only read the first sentence? the idea proposed is that hes uniquely incapable of being honest here because he has such an extreme incentive to lie

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glub 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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