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What was their original mission? My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people wil
by pbreit 8mo ago
What was their original mission?
My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.
- saagarjha 8mo agoFriendly AI
- dude250711 8mo agoTo maximise shareholder value.
- lenerdenator 8mo agoTechnically speaking, it's to maximize shareholder value while serving the public interest. They're a public benefit corporation.
- longfacehorrace 8mo agoOpenAI has "open" in their name but is closed off to public access and input Google used to have a motto "don't be evil" Who enforces the definition of language? Who demands compliance? Soon as we go down the path of policing and insistence on one true dogma, we veer into religious holy war type behavior. Obsession with semantics of syntax is a sort of theism even if the syntax and semantics do not refer to the commonly accepted tropes of a specific religion.
- lenerdenator 8mo agoIn this case, it has to do with how they're classified under Delaware law as a corporate entity. I'm not a lawyer (I don't even play one on TV, damn you Odenkirk) so I can't tell you what that means as far as case law for companies getting punished for behaving badly, but in this case, there is supposedly some sort of legal backing for the classification.
- longfacehorrace 8mo agoLaws are words with zero meaning if they go unenforced. Politicians are not interested in assuring such. Public is busy arguing semantics online; they are not interested in assuring such.
- senordevnyc 8mo agoIn other words, you didn’t know they’re a PBC, and you don’t know what that means?
- longfacehorrace 8mo agoI know PBC; legal semantics that dictate various financial terms. I also know the specifics because for some reason those specifics matter to some people, and it's been personally beneficial to have more than an awareness of such legalese. Makes true believers feel I am living up to their "one of us!" means testing. I accept they matter to others but reject such exists as anything but contemporary ethno-objects. Similar to how I acknowledge Christianity exists but am not a disciple of the dogma; I have to accept others believe but do not have to pledge allegiance myself. Aside from engineering and healthcare, machine operation, with real safety implications, everything else is just parroting and social role-play. Being a VHS copy-paste of generational semantics isn't the flex you want it to be. Patronize harder though.
- senordevnyc 8mo agoHaha, this is excellent satire. Well done.
- xvector 8mo agoThey've been very clear about their mission, they're doing more than anyone else when it comes to it, and if you've ever interviewed with them you'd know how critical it is to them. But I guess it's easier to make a glib comment than look these things up.
- 2sdd 8mo agoAmazing people lap this up.
- vessenes 8mo agoIt's a benefit corp
- pbreit 8mo agoDoes that label have much impact on anything? Does it paralyze human nature?
- s_dev 8mo ago>What was their original mission? Beat OpenAI. The Founders came from OpenAI so there was obviously some disagreement about the direction there or they simply wanted more control.
- dbbk 8mo agoGoogle will beat OpenAI on general AI. Anthropic have wisely leaned into the thing they're best at, which is coding.