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You are right but for OpenAI there could exist in principle a strategy of beating the cynicism out of them by holding them to their word. I might have wanted to
by vinnyvichy 2y ago
You are right but for OpenAI there could exist in principle a strategy of beating the cynicism out of them by holding them to their word. I might have wanted to encourage people to be optimistic about that.
- _heimdall 2y agoWho would do the beating there though? And why would OpenAI actually care to stick to their word? The whole CEO debacle seemed to make it pretty clear to me that OpenAI wasn't interested in being open or non-profit.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoElon might have stuck to his lawsuit, or someone like PG could come out strongly against Altman, but you might need someone of Mervin Kelly's stature and an army of lawyers to do it. Maybe Fei-Fei Li after she has earned her startup cred (so that the suits and politicians have the chance to take a technical leader seriously, put her on the board in place of Larry Summers, e.g.)
- _heimdall 2y agoWhat's the ideal end acenario if someone does successfully smack them back down to stand by their original promises? And what's the worst case scenario if no one stands up to them?
- surfingdino 2y agoIt might be better for one's sanity to start looking at what people and orgs do instead of what they say or what others imagine/hope they do. It's a business and and the end of the day has to return all the money Microsoft invested in it. Ethics is what toilet rolls are made of at large corps.
- vinnyvichy 2y agoToday, maybe, but I doubt you could have said that of Bell Labs, at least by Occam's razor. (Maybe they weren't a business all by themselves, but their output was effectively deployed to the parent concern by most standards)