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> Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics. He predicts that we may have an

by bambax 2y ago

> Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics. He predicts that we may have an all-powerful superintelligence “in a few thousand days.” It seems fair to say Altman has completed his Musk transformation. Some might argue it's inevitable. And indeed Bill Gates' books in the 90s made a lot of wild promises. But nothing that egregious.

yndoendo 2y ago
Both of them remind me of Elizabeth Holmes. She ran Theranos through a promise of lies long enough they turned into fraud. So far Musk has been pushing the lies out continually to try and prevent any possible exposure to fraud. Like "Getting to Mars will save humanity" or the latest "We will never reach Mars unless Trump is president again". Then again, self driving cars are just around the corner, as stated in 2014 with a fraudulently staged video of their technology, that they just need to work the bugs out. Altman is making wild clams too with how Machine Learning will slow and reverse climate change while proving that the technology needs vast more resources, specially in power consumption, just to be market viable for business and personal usage. All three play off people's emotions to repress critical thinking. They are no different than the lying preachers, I can heal you with a touch of my hand, that use religion to gain power and wealth. The three above are just replacing religion with technology.
- whamlastxmas 2y ago
  This is some really out there thinking, and I think you need to do some basic fact checking bc some of this just isn’t true
- n2d4 2y ago
  The difference between those is that Musk and Altman make wrong predictions about the future; Holmes with Theranos made wrong statements about the present. One of them is illegal, the other isn't.

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> Altman expects that his technology will fix the climate, help humankind establish space colonies, and discover all of physics. He predicts that we may have an

by bambax 2y ago

yndoendo 2y ago
Both of them remind me of Elizabeth Holmes. She ran Theranos through a promise of lies long enough they turned into fraud. So far Musk has been pushing the lies out continually to try and prevent any possible exposure to fraud. Like "Getting to Mars will save humanity" or the latest "We will never reach Mars unless Trump is president again". Then again, self driving cars are just around the corner, as stated in 2014 with a fraudulently staged video of their technology, that they just need to work the bugs out. Altman is making wild clams too with how Machine Learning will slow and reverse climate change while proving that the technology needs vast more resources, specially in power consumption, just to be market viable for business and personal usage. All three play off people's emotions to repress critical thinking. They are no different than the lying preachers, I can heal you with a touch of my hand, that use religion to gain power and wealth. The three above are just replacing religion with technology.
- whamlastxmas 2y ago
  This is some really out there thinking, and I think you need to do some basic fact checking bc some of this just isn’t true
- n2d4 2y ago
  The difference between those is that Musk and Altman make wrong predictions about the future; Holmes with Theranos made wrong statements about the present. One of them is illegal, the other isn't.