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It's one thing to vent frustration, but it's another to compare a capitalist startup to the Soviet Union... Get your facts right.
by keyle 3y ago
It's one thing to vent frustration, but it's another to compare a capitalist startup to the Soviet Union... Get your facts right.
- jiggawatts 3y agoSam Altman was giving people access to GPT 4 APIs because they attended a conference. "Lick my boots, in person, and you can be one of the privileged few" is very much the behaviour of a Communist dictatorship, not a capitalist corporation. I can spin up an Azure VM right now in almost any country I choose... except China. That's the only one where I have to beg the government for permission.
- vore 3y agoHow the world of enterprise sales works may come as an unpleasant surprise to you, then.
- Teandw 3y agoYou've clearly not experienced the reality of enterprise then. You're opinions are based on a limited understanding and knowledge of real life situations when it comes to this sort of stuff.
- smeagull 3y agoSeems correct to me. This is a good assessment of the personalities involved.
- jiggawatts 3y agoI’ve only worked in big enterprise and big government for over two decades. I know exactly how this works. When someone has power, they will use it. In small, petty ways, or big “do me favours for access” ways.
- vore 3y agoThen you should know this is literally what every capitalist does!
- ben_w 3y ago> "Lick my boots, in person, and you can be one of the privileged few" is very much the behaviour of a Communist dictatorship, not a capitalist corporation It's both, and more besides. Veblen goods are absolutely a thing in capitalism. Not that "giving people access to GPT 4 APIs because they attended a conference" should be controversial enough to even get worked up about, let alone to compare to a dictatorship, but Google did much the same at developer conferences: I/O 2012 swag list included a Galaxy Nexus, a Nexus 7, a Nexus Q, and a Chromebox.