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Honestly there is something deeply shameful about tech workers finally organizing, uniting together in one voice, and using that voice to defend Sam Altman of a
by Devasta 3y ago
Honestly there is something deeply shameful about tech workers finally organizing, uniting together in one voice, and using that voice to defend Sam Altman of all people.
- thinkingemote 3y agoYep. The tools we are building will have something of the character of the people who build them and their values inside of them. We used to identify some behaviour as sin. A few years ago it was commonly said that "Microsoft is evil".
- jacquesm 3y agoFor me that hasn't changed, I don't see a different company, I just see more polish and people lap it up because they'd like to believe that this time around Microsoft is their friend. If appropriating all open source on GitHub didn't wake people up I don't think anything will.
- majikaja 3y agoOffer big paychecks and this is the culture one gets...
- jacquesm 3y agoI don't feel any different relative to the people working at FB or Google and all of them have their own in-house AI projects. Ethics are a problem for all of these parties and that seems to happen more or less automatically when an entity reaches a certain size.
- trosi 3y agoThey like money just like everyone else does. And you can't build AGI without a lot of money. The board screwed up. They could have negotiated with MS on another CEO. Instead they went behind everyone's backs and thought themselves omnipotent. Well, guess what.
- croes 3y ago>negotiated with MS Why? The board is from OpenAI, Inc. and MS isn't an investor of OpenAI, Inc.
- polygamous_bat 3y agoBecause he who controls the spice controls the universe. (By spice I mean money here for those unfamiliar with the reference)
- ekosz 3y agoBecause if they wanted to keep their compute credits that they desperately need to achieve their mission, they cannot be randomly pissing off their biggest collaborators. Just because the board doesn't legally _need_ to work with their for-profit investors, doesn't mean they shouldn't. Had they played this like adults they could have seen through a smooth transition and not be looking at a total collapse like they are now.
- martindbp 3y agoPeople hate Musk because he says everything that comes to mind, but it's people like Altman that scare me, because he's actually good at this game and it's difficult to get a sense of his true motivations.
- isthatafact 3y agoThe worldcoin scam suggests to me that Altman is likely to do evil, even if he might have good intentions.
- 93po 3y agoIt’s exhaustingly inaccurate to plainly label WC a scam
- isthatafact 3y agoyes, not everyone would consider it to be a scam, but it seems strange that his worldcoin has been largely ignored in these discussions of the implications of his leadership. I think worldcoin reveals a lot about him. I am very hesitant to trust charismatic people like Altman, even before hearing of his worldcoin.
- 93po 3y agoSam isn't a leader or manager at WC. He's just one of many founders. Worldcoin has terrible optics, thanks in part to having "coin" as part of the name which is a word it shares with endless scams. However they're solving real problems which do unfortunately involve biometrics, but in the long term it's extremely privacy protecting biometrics and nothing is meaningfully stored anywhere in the long term vision.
- lacrimacida 3y ago> Honestly there is something deeply shameful about tech workers finally organizing, uniting together in one voice, and using that voice to defend Sam Altman of all people. They saw the money on the horizon and that changed everything.