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OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift
- BoredPositron 9mo agoCost of doing business is skyrocketing in the US.
- cyanydeez 9mo agoBusiness===Politics In america, there appears to be zero diffetence.
- beardyw 9mo agoNot all countries consider bribes as doing business.
- sschueller 9mo agoIt's actually illegal in many like in Switzerland for example. The Rolex executives that gifted the gold bar and watch to Trump's library may face consequences.
- netsharc 9mo agohttps://archive.is/CBQFY https://archive.is/CBQFY > Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan government was earnestly trying, but failing, to serve its people. The government was actually succeeding, albeit at “another objective altogether”—the enrichment of its own members. A few paragraphs later: > In the face of flagrant misappropriation, she found, ordinary citizens could experience a sense of grievance so potent that it filled them with something worse than anger—a desire for revenge. Nurallah, an employee at the factory who once worked as a police officer, told her about the humiliation that his brother experienced during a shakedown by Afghan police. “If I see someone plant an I.E.D. on the road, and then I see a police truck coming... I will not warn them,” Nurallah said. This is the central revelation in “Thieves of State”: at a certain point, systemic corruption became not just a lamentable by-product of the war but an accelerant of conflict. All those bribes and kickbacks radicalized the local population, turning it against the Afghan government and, at least some of the time, toward the Taliban.
- simianwords 9mo agoThis is obviously not ideal but what would have been a better alternative? Democrats are pushing anti tech agenda without understanding the consequences. And this is not because democrats are stupid, it’s because there’s a large population who feels the same way.
- ewuhic 9mo agoTrump gets bribe. Democrats bad.
- ulfw 9mo agoIs this some kind of joke? Do you Americans really think this is okay? Bribing presidents and influencing future elections with multi millions of dollars? What does this all still have to do with Making the World a Better Place and all that other dumb shit Stanford and Google and all these other Silicon Valley institutions blurted out for decades?
- smackeyacky 9mo agoThe answer is yes. Americans are fine with this.
- westmeal 9mo agoI'm not fine with it but when you have a bunch of people who listen to their Instagram feed what are you gonna do?
- egorfine 9mo agoNon-american here, so I genuinely have no clue and I would like to know: Does that donation mean that Greg Brockman personally supports what Trump is doing today in the US?
- shwetanshu21 9mo agoNon-American but yup, Americans generally donate to people whose policies you support. For Non Americans it is a bit complicated but very much possible.
- ulfw 9mo agoI mean would you spend $25,000,000 of your money on something or someone you do not support?
- egorfine 9mo agoI can image quite a few cases where I would.
- arealaccount 9mo agoPretty soon you will see people marketing models as more ethical and artisanal than the competitors. If I pay anthropic will my money go towards disrupting the mid term elections?
- darthnebula 9mo agoWhat he does with his own money is none of anyone's business. I live in a state where it is pretty evenly divided between parties. I have friends who support Trump and friends who don't like him. All of them are nice people who have valid reasons for who they support. Demonizing people because they don't agree with you is detrimental to society and it is not sustainable.
- lins1909 9mo ago>Demonizing people because they don't agree with you is detrimental to society and it is not sustainable. Surely there's a difference between demonising people who disagree on the value of mushrooms in meals and demonising people who support a bigot? Also, you lot conveniently pick and choose when to apply this, as I'm sure no one would make the same arguments for people who supported Hitler.
- jmye 9mo ago> Demonizing people because they don't agree with you is detrimental to society and it is not sustainable. Fascinating how this is only ever used as bludgeon in one direction. Never used when people talk about immigrants eating pets or being “vermin”, or when someone asks that you call them she/her or they/them. I wonder why that is. Surely not an abject lack of moral consistency. > What he does with his own money is none of anyone's business. Nah, if I don’t like where my money flows after I spend it, I am perfectly free to spend it in other ways. I’m sorry people like you dislike my freedom of association.
- TFYS 9mo agoEven more detrimental to society is corruption, which this is. Who gives money to the leaders of your country and why should definitely be everyone's business.
- beepbooptheory 9mo agoJust an aside but this sentiment can't help feel a little comical just maybe at this moment. Like it all sounds right and we have heard it all before, but you can almost hear the impotent rehearsal of it in our current context. Like where has the decency gone am I right??
- moogly 9mo agoNot to defend this fiend, but it might be because the White House got mad at him and his wife for first donating $50M to another society destroying super PAC. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-house-irked-leading-future-new-100m-ai-super-pac-rcna239392 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/white-... Still means he's more than fine with fascism. This is why people using the "voting with your dollar" argument need to never use that ever again.
- tastyface 9mo agoAI companies are fucking toxic. We desperately need publicly trained and publicly owned frontier models.