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> I felt Demis Hassabis was trustworthy in a way Sam Altman couldn't be—a true scientist, not a businessman Not that I think Demis is or is not trustworthy, bu
by Waterluvian 2y ago
> I felt Demis Hassabis was trustworthy in a way Sam Altman couldn't be—a true scientist, not a businessman
Not that I think Demis is or is not trustworthy, but I think it’s a bit foolish to believe it would be allowed to matter.
- eru 2y agoI also don't see why scientists should be more trustworthy than business people.
- procaryote 2y agoIn theory, one seeks knowledge, the other money. In practice, people are people and there are probably variance in both camps, but it's easy to see why one would by default trust a business person less
- eru 2y ago> In theory, one seeks knowledge, the other money. There's nothing wrong with either in my books, especially if you seek money by serving your fellow humans.
- blitzar 2y agoI also don't see why doctors should be more trustworthy than used car sales people.
- logicchains 2y agoThe opiod epidemic should have taught people that indeed doctors shouldn't be trusted more than any other profession.
- QuadmasterXLII 2y agoyour trust scale needs more dynamic range- the sackler fiasco genuinely should have bumped everyone’s trust in doctors a lot, but probably should not have bumped them below supplement peddling minecraft youtubers.
- tim333 2y agoIt's already made some difference to how the companies are behaving - Deepmind doing quite a lot of work on protein folding and now protein drug interactions, OpenAI under Altman tying to do the startup max the money raised and user count thing.