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I didn't say they're guaranteed to lose. I said I'd put my money on it. If you put your money otherwise, that's a sad view of the world.
by cynicalpeace 2y ago
I didn't say they're guaranteed to lose. I said I'd put my money on it.
If you put your money otherwise, that's a sad view of the world.
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- fastball 2y agoThis sounds very Effective Altruism. "If you don't put your money towards the things with the most positive impact you're a bad/sad person".
- cynicalpeace 2y agoI didn't say positive impact. What I'm saying is you either think Sam's conniving will work out for him, or it won't. If you think it will, that's very cynical.
- throwaway314155 2y agoDespite what you may think, it isn't inherently illogical to be cynical. In fact, sometimes it's the appropriate point of view. Just the same, viewing the world optimistically is sometimes also viewed as naive. In any case, the real issue with your logic is in thinking that an individual's personal views on the morality of a situation are correlated with the actual, potentially harsh, reality of that situation. There is rarely ever such a correlation and when it happens, it is likely a coincidence. Is Sam Altman untrustworthy? Of course, he seems like a snake. That doesn't mean he will fail. And predicting the reality of the thing (that awful people sometimes succeed in this world) does not make someone inherently wrong or negative or even cynical - it just makes them a realist.