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Friends, coders, business men and women, Lend me your ears;[1] I come to bury Altman, not to praise him. The carbon footprint that men leave lives a
by logicallee 3y ago
Friends, coders, business men and women,
Lend me your ears;[1]
I come to bury Altman, not to praise him.
The carbon footprint that men leave lives after them;
The good is oft archived with their code;
So let it be with Altman.
The noble Mowshowitz
Has told you Altman was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously has Altman answered it.
Here, under the post of Mowshowitz and the rest–
For Mowshowitz is an honorable man;
So are they all, all honorable men–
Come I to speak at Altman’s burial.
He was our friend, faithful and just to us:
But Mowshowitz says he was ambitious;
And Mowshowitz is an honorable man.
He has brought many models forth to roam
Whose free tier outputs did the public's coffers fill:[2]
Did this in Altman seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Altman has wept:[3]
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Mowshowitz says he was ambitious;
And Mowshowitz is an honorable man.
You all did see that Yishan Wong resigned [4]
And presented Sam Altman a kingly crown,
Which Altman did hand off to Steve Huffman: was this ambition?
Yet Mowshowitz says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honorable man.
I speak not to disprove what Mowshowitz spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
We all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds us then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Altman,
And I must pause till it come back to me."
[1] After "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" speech: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56968/speech-friends-romans-countrymen-lend-me-your-ears https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56968/speech-friends-...
[2] https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing https://openai.com/chatgpt/pricing "Free Unlimited messages, interactions, and history"
[3] "Altman is a supporter of universal basic income" (Wikipedia)
[4] "For eight days in 2014, Altman was the CEO of Reddit, a social media company after CEO Yishan Wong resigned. He announced the return of Steve Huffman as CEO on July 10, 2015." (Wikipedia)
- aorth 3y ago> [3] "Altman is a supporter of universal basic income" (Wikipedia) I thought universal basic income was just giving people money, but Sam's vision is apparently different. Here in Kenya his WorldCoin had desperate people lining up to scan their eyeballs and give over all their personal information in exchange for some useless cryptocurrency. The Kenyan government eventually told them to stop doing that.