Comment by cschep
Comment by cschep a day ago
#2 cannot be understated
Comment by cschep a day ago
#2 cannot be understated
It is starting to become clear to more and more people that Sam is a dyed in the wool True Believer in AGI. While it's obvious in hindsight that OpenAI would never have gotten anywhere if he wasn't, seeing it so starkly is really rubbing a lot of people the wrong way.
One of my favorites is Amphora of Great Intelligence by the artist David Revoy.
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1090/the-amphora-of-great-...
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1092/the-amphora-of-great-...
it's even worse than that and i hope people recognize that it's not that he's a True Believer (though the TBs are often hilarious)
it's that he has no ethics to speak of at all. it's not that he's out of touch, it's that he simply does not care.
Well, in the world where AGI is created and it goes suboptimally, everybody gets turned into computronium and goes extinct, which is a prospect some are miffed about. And, in the world where it goes well, no decision of any consequence is made by a human being ever again, since the computer has planned every significant life event since before their birth. Free will in a very literal sense will have been erased. Sam being a true believer means he is not going to stop working until one of these worlds comes true. People who understand the stakes are understandably irked by him.
Well, he made mistake many billionaires do, he opened his mouth with his own thoughts, instead of just reading what PR department told him to read
He is a pretty interesting case. According to the book "Empire of AI" about OpenAI, he lies constantly, even about things that are too trivial to matter. So it may be part of some compulsive behavior.
And when two people want different things from him, he "resolves" the conflict by agreeing with each of them separately, and then each assumes they got what they wanted, until they talk to the other person and find out that nothing was resolved.
Really not a person who is qualified to run a company, except the constant lying is good for fundraising and PR.
He was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC.
Interesting that he's got as far as he has with this issue. I don't think you can run a company effectively if you don't deal in truth.
Some of his videos have seemed quite bizarre as well, quite sarcastic about concerns people have about AI in general.
> He was once a big pin in Y Combinator (I think kind of ran it?)... Paul Graham thought he was great for YC.
And today it seems everyone will at YC hate him but pretend not
Saw Empire of AI in a bookshop recently but held off buying as wasn’t sure if it was going to be surface level. You’d recommend?
Not a case, society call them sociopaths. Witch includes power struggle, manipulation and physiological abuse of the people around them.
Example, Sam Altman and OpenAI hoarding 40% of the RAM supply as unprocessed wafers stored in warehouses bought with magical bubble investors money in GPUs that don't exist yet and that they will not be able to install because there's not enough electricity to feed such botched tech, in data centers that are still to be built, with intention to punch the competence supply, and all the people of the planet in the process along two years (at least).
Yep the various -path adjectives get overused but in this case he's the real deal, something is really really off about him.
You can see it when he talks, he's clearly trying (very unconvincingly) to emulate normal human emotions like concern and empathy. He doesn't feel them.
People like that are capable of great evil and there's a part of our lizard brains that can sense it
Scariest part is it probably won't, and he'll be back in five year with something else.
Was the golden boy for a while? What shifted? I don't even remember what he did "first" to get the status. Is it maybe just a case of familiarity breeding contempt?