iibarea · HackerTrans

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Assuming we take this at face value, once you have a lot of money power becomes appealing - and control over a very important player in the AI space is that. The original vision of openAI was democratization of that decision-making process, the model now is - these guys are in charge. Maybe that's altruistic, because they're the smartest guys in the room and they can mitigate the downside risks of this tech (... not fucking AGI, but much more like the infinite propaganda potential of chatGPT). I'm more a fan of democratization, but that's not a universally held opinion in sv.

iibarea

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... and Simons would maybe be the most justified in overlooking luck, but he's smart enough to realize how random the world is. Peter Norvig also emphasizes the role of luck in his life. It's honestly a very good test of self-awareness and empathy, though there's def some negative selection against those traits in sv.

iibarea

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Again, this is unbelievably good marketing - and good sales when pitching VCs. Plus it's a nice reworking of the very for profit nonprofit model (see also FTX). But in terms of actual reality openAI is mostly succeeding by being more reckless and more aggressively commercial than the other players in this space, and is in no meaningful way a nonprofit any longer.

iibarea

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There's tons of extremely effective marketing around who this guy is, what he stands for - and so I'd instead look at what he's done. He took a non-profit intended to offset the commercial motives driving AI development, and turned it into a for profit closely tied to Microsoft. I think he's an extremely shrewd executive and salesman, but nothing he's done suggests any altruistic motivations - that part always seems to be just marketing, and always way down the road.

iibarea

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This ... doesn't seem that bad? And I don't think I'd conclude that someone had found out something about me illegally or unethically unless there was something really shitty to find out?

iibarea

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Newsom structures things like this a lot, and the more ambitious part almost never happens. I think this is mostly about running for president and creating a talking point, call me cynical but I don't think anyone expects Ca to directly run drug manufacturing.

iibarea

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I've lived on the edge of the mission for about a decade (and grew up in Oakland and Albany). Do I think SF is extremely dangerous? Honestly not at all, violent crime is not a major issue here - and it feels safer in most of the city than it did when I was growing up. But I've also seen folks walk into the CVS/Walgreens on mission multiple times and just nonchalantly fill backpacks - and I wouldn't leave a coffee cup in my car. Property crime is extreme here in a way I haven't experienced anywhere else. It doesn't bother me as much as it bothers other people, but I do think it matters - and I think it's very hard to collect clean, comparable data on this stuff given differences in measurement and all the incentives at play. We def have a property crime problem.

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