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Makes sense. I'd sell my soul for much less, as would most of you. If they didn't sell their soul, that would be more of a surprise.

mr90210 4y ago
Or probably they wouldn’t have survived given how much resource they need to operate. If they were not called OpenAI probably such blog posts would be written. Given how much ahead they are, they can safely rename the company if they wish to do so.
bitcoin_anon 4y ago
Sathoshi Nakamoto's soul remains intact.
- no_wizard 4y ago
  one day those coins will be sold, I think, and we'll see if bitcoin can go beyond Sathoshi
- HervalFreire 4y ago
  He probably died. That's the most likely explanation.
  - LanceH 4y ago
    Another explanation is that he has a lot more bitcoin outside the large stack and moving the big stack would crash the market as a whole.
    - HappySweeney 4y ago
      How many anonymous whales are there?
      - LanceH 4y ago
        How much is a whale? Not everyone needs to be a billionaire. He could have a couple million anonymously, and a nice full time job, and be under the radar. I want to believe this, rather than he lost the key or that it's that other guy who has chosen not to be anonymous.
ProAm 4y ago
> as would most of you. I think we are okay with selling of the soul, it was the rhetoric that they were good, honest, and open before hand. This comes across as just another VC marketing pitch where greed underlies everything in the end. That is where the sourness comes from. Call it a pivot.
- FpUser 4y ago
  "Do no evil"
amelius 4y ago
If anyone was still thinking about companies as saints, then this is a good moment to reconsider that. (This also applies to the Apple folks here).
- FredPret 4y ago
  Apple fan here - I have no illusions about them being a saint. I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests. Charge me a lot for quality and simplicity. Google makes money not from selling me a good product, but by selling my information, and Microsoft seems determined to confuse and frustrate, profiting from lockin rather than quality. Yes, I'm concerned that Apple is selling ads.
  - visarga 4y ago
    By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend. I had to buy special hardware to fix their spartan tablet to play MIDI music - how do you get audio out without lag when the input is required for connecting to the keyboard? Certainly not from the jack output.
    - JohnFen 4y ago
      > By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend. I agree that this was a terrible decision (although as a non-Apple user, I wouldn't care except that so many non-Apple companies followed Apple's lead here). But to be fair, that's a product design decision, not really one with moral implications.
    - hansoolo 4y ago
      And most definitely not from Bluetooth
  - politelemon 4y ago
    > I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests. It's a common expression I see around here, but you do not know their profit motives. You only know their marketing and hold a perception of them. They are not the same thing, there cannot be alignment.

mr90210 4y ago

Or probably they wouldn’t have survived given how much resource they need to operate. If they were not called OpenAI probably such blog posts would be written. Given how much ahead they are, they can safely rename the company if they wish to do so.

bitcoin_anon 4y ago

Sathoshi Nakamoto's soul remains intact.

no_wizard 4y ago
one day those coins will be sold, I think, and we'll see if bitcoin can go beyond Sathoshi
HervalFreire 4y ago
He probably died. That's the most likely explanation.
- LanceH 4y ago
  Another explanation is that he has a lot more bitcoin outside the large stack and moving the big stack would crash the market as a whole.
  - HappySweeney 4y ago
    How many anonymous whales are there?
    - LanceH 4y ago
      How much is a whale? Not everyone needs to be a billionaire. He could have a couple million anonymously, and a nice full time job, and be under the radar. I want to believe this, rather than he lost the key or that it's that other guy who has chosen not to be anonymous.

ProAm 4y ago

> as would most of you. I think we are okay with selling of the soul, it was the rhetoric that they were good, honest, and open before hand. This comes across as just another VC marketing pitch where greed underlies everything in the end. That is where the sourness comes from. Call it a pivot.

FpUser 4y ago
"Do no evil"

amelius 4y ago

If anyone was still thinking about companies as saints, then this is a good moment to reconsider that. (This also applies to the Apple folks here).

FredPret 4y ago
Apple fan here - I have no illusions about them being a saint. I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests. Charge me a lot for quality and simplicity. Google makes money not from selling me a good product, but by selling my information, and Microsoft seems determined to confuse and frustrate, profiting from lockin rather than quality. Yes, I'm concerned that Apple is selling ads.
- visarga 4y ago
  By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend. I had to buy special hardware to fix their spartan tablet to play MIDI music - how do you get audio out without lag when the input is required for connecting to the keyboard? Certainly not from the jack output.
  - JohnFen 4y ago
    > By removing audio jacks from everything Apple is not my friend. I agree that this was a terrible decision (although as a non-Apple user, I wouldn't care except that so many non-Apple companies followed Apple's lead here). But to be fair, that's a product design decision, not really one with moral implications.
  - hansoolo 4y ago
    And most definitely not from Bluetooth
- politelemon 4y ago
  > I like that their profit motive aligns with my interests. It's a common expression I see around here, but you do not know their profit motives. You only know their marketing and hold a perception of them. They are not the same thing, there cannot be alignment.