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SV leaders often aim for disruption. One hypothesis is that Altman is maximizing OpenAI's disruption with the publicity campaign. There is also the megalomania
by wolverine876 3y ago
SV leaders often aim for disruption. One hypothesis is that Altman is maximizing OpenAI's disruption with the publicity campaign.
There is also the megalomania trend. As Meredith Whittaker says: "It's a significant thing to cast yourself as the creator of an entity that could be more powerful than human beings,"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/19/1075140/how-existential-risk-became-biggest-meme-in-ai/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/06/19/1075140/how-exis...
- kalkin 3y agoI don't think "disruption" in the sense of "disruptive innovation" actually is synonymous with just causing chaos, and the latter doesn't seem like a very coherent theory of Altman's motives.
- wolverine876 3y agoWould you expand on what you mean by the differences, and how they apply here? Also, what do you mean by 'coherent' in this context?
- kalkin 3y agoWikipedia: "disruptive innovation is innovation that creates a new market and value network or enters at the bottom of an existing market and eventually displaces established market-leading firms, products, and alliances" ChatGPT is at least arguably disruptive innovation, but this sense of disruption is not something you can maximize or minimize with a publicity campaign. And by "coherent", I mean a theory of Altman's motives that is consistent with at least some of his incentives. I don't see what he would get out of generally causing chaos.
- wolverine876 3y agoYet that's what many SV powers do; look at Musk for a more obvious example. Some have bunkers in New Zealand to survive the chaos.