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Isn’t Sam already very rich? I mean it wouldn’t be the first time a guy wanted to be even richer, but I feel like we need to be more creative when divining his

Isn’t Sam already very rich? I mean it wouldn’t be the first time a guy wanted to be even richer, but I feel like we need to be more creative when divining his intentions

viraptor 1y ago
Nah, worldcoin is now going to the US. He just wants to get richer. https://archive.is/JTuGE https://archive.is/JTuGE
sigilis 1y ago
Why would we need to be more creative? The explanation of him wanting more money is perfectly adequate. Being rich results in a kind of limitation of scope for ambition. To the sufferer, a person who has everything they could want, there is no other objective worth having. They become eccentric and they pursue more money. We should have enrichment facilities for these people where they play incremental games and don’t ruin the world like the paperclip maximizers they are.
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- whynotminot 1y ago
  > Why would we need to be more creative? The explanation of him wanting more money is perfectly adequate. Being rich results in a kind of limitation of scope for ambition. The dude announces new initiatives from the White House, regularly briefs Senators and senior DoD leaders, and is the top get for interviews around the world for AI topics. There’s a lot more to be ambitious about than just money.
  - sigilis 1y ago
    These are all activities he is engaging in to generate money through the company he has a stake in. None of those activities have a purpose other than selling the work of his company and presenting it as a good investment which is how he gets money. Maybe he wants to use the money in some nebulous future way, subjugating all people in a way that deals with his childhood trauma or whatever. That’s also something rich people do when they need a hobby aside from gathering more money. It’s not their main goal, except when they run into setbacks. People are not complicated when they are money hoarders. They might have had hidden depths once, but they are thin furrows in the ground next to the giant piles of money that define them now.
    - whynotminot 1y ago
      > These are all activities he is engaging in to generate money through the company he has a stake in. None of those activities have a purpose other than selling the work of his company and presenting it as a good investment which is how he gets money. So he doesn't enjoy the attention? Prestige or power? Respect? Are you Sam Altman? Because you're making a lot of assumptions on his psyche right now.
paulddraper 1y ago
OpenAI doesn’t have the lead anymore. Google/Anthropic are catching up, or already surpassed.
- 6510 1y ago
  how? The internet says 400 m weekly chatgpt users, 19 m weekly Anthropic, 47.3 m Monthly Gemini, Grok 6.7 m daily, 430 m Baidu.
senderista 1y ago
"It's not about the money, it's about winning" --Gordon Gekko
Yizahi 1y ago
It seems a defining feature of nearly every single extremely rich person is their belief that they somehow are smarter than filthy peasants, and so he decides to "educate" them of the sacred knowledge. This may take vastly different forms - genocide, war, trying to create via bribes a better government, create a city from scratch, create a new corporate "culture", do public proselytizing of their "do better" faith, write books, classes etc. St. Altman plans to create a corporate god for us dumb schmucks, and he will be it's prophet.

Isn’t Sam already very rich? I mean it wouldn’t be the first time a guy wanted to be even richer, but I feel like we need to be more creative when divining his intentions

viraptor 1y ago

Nah, worldcoin is now going to the US. He just wants to get richer. https://archive.is/JTuGE https://archive.is/JTuGE

sigilis 1y ago

Why would we need to be more creative? The explanation of him wanting more money is perfectly adequate. Being rich results in a kind of limitation of scope for ambition. To the sufferer, a person who has everything they could want, there is no other objective worth having. They become eccentric and they pursue more money. We should have enrichment facilities for these people where they play incremental games and don’t ruin the world like the paperclip maximizers they are.

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whynotminot 1y ago
> Why would we need to be more creative? The explanation of him wanting more money is perfectly adequate. Being rich results in a kind of limitation of scope for ambition. The dude announces new initiatives from the White House, regularly briefs Senators and senior DoD leaders, and is the top get for interviews around the world for AI topics. There’s a lot more to be ambitious about than just money.
- sigilis 1y ago
  These are all activities he is engaging in to generate money through the company he has a stake in. None of those activities have a purpose other than selling the work of his company and presenting it as a good investment which is how he gets money. Maybe he wants to use the money in some nebulous future way, subjugating all people in a way that deals with his childhood trauma or whatever. That’s also something rich people do when they need a hobby aside from gathering more money. It’s not their main goal, except when they run into setbacks. People are not complicated when they are money hoarders. They might have had hidden depths once, but they are thin furrows in the ground next to the giant piles of money that define them now.
  - whynotminot 1y ago
    > These are all activities he is engaging in to generate money through the company he has a stake in. None of those activities have a purpose other than selling the work of his company and presenting it as a good investment which is how he gets money. So he doesn't enjoy the attention? Prestige or power? Respect? Are you Sam Altman? Because you're making a lot of assumptions on his psyche right now.

paulddraper 1y ago

OpenAI doesn’t have the lead anymore. Google/Anthropic are catching up, or already surpassed.

6510 1y ago
how? The internet says 400 m weekly chatgpt users, 19 m weekly Anthropic, 47.3 m Monthly Gemini, Grok 6.7 m daily, 430 m Baidu.

senderista 1y ago

"It's not about the money, it's about winning" --Gordon Gekko

Yizahi 1y ago

It seems a defining feature of nearly every single extremely rich person is their belief that they somehow are smarter than filthy peasants, and so he decides to "educate" them of the sacred knowledge. This may take vastly different forms - genocide, war, trying to create via bribes a better government, create a city from scratch, create a new corporate "culture", do public proselytizing of their "do better" faith, write books, classes etc. St. Altman plans to create a corporate god for us dumb schmucks, and he will be it's prophet.