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It's inexcusable that the AI companies have not formed a united front against this. I've been skeptical of the idea that OpenAI leadership is outright MAGA, but

It's inexcusable that the AI companies have not formed a united front against this. I've been skeptical of the idea that OpenAI leadership is outright MAGA, but even pure self-interest does not explain staying silent while the Pentagon demands autonomous killbots.

Sebguer 8mo ago
Brockman donated 25,000,000 dollars to the MAGA superpac, how much more 'outright' would you like him to be, haha.
- SpicyLemonZest 8mo ago
  He claimed, and until today I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, that he was trying to curry favor with a notoriously bribe-able President. Not exactly a paragon of moral virtue, but I wouldn't be able to do business with nearly any company in the US if I made that a dealbreaker. This clears the bar where I'm willing to cut ties and demand that everyone else do the same.
  - _aavaa_ 8mo ago
    We must join with him, we must join with Sauron.
    - tototrains 8mo ago
      Sauron might win, don't want to risk being on the wrong side of the post-apocalypse
      - BLKNSLVR 8mo ago
        Just because you're on Sauron's side when it wins, doesn't mean you'll be on Sauron's side at any other point in the future. One of the things I find interesting about classifying literally any kind of trait within bounds of 'normality', and the culling / suppressing / discouragement of anything outside of that definition, is that there will just be new 'edges', and in short order these edges will be 'other', suddenly outside the definition because times are bad and it has to be someone's fault. And so an ad infinitum until the single supreme ruler is the one entity representative of normal, atop a mountain of dead abominations.
        5o1ecist 8mo ago
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- cyanydeez 8mo ago
  Shareholder value and MAGA value are a venn diagram of optical illusion.
- LarsDu88 8mo ago
  This is not only a big donation. It is actually the BIGGEST donation by any single individual.

Sebguer 8mo ago

Brockman donated 25,000,000 dollars to the MAGA superpac, how much more 'outright' would you like him to be, haha.

SpicyLemonZest 8mo ago
He claimed, and until today I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, that he was trying to curry favor with a notoriously bribe-able President. Not exactly a paragon of moral virtue, but I wouldn't be able to do business with nearly any company in the US if I made that a dealbreaker. This clears the bar where I'm willing to cut ties and demand that everyone else do the same.
- _aavaa_ 8mo ago
  We must join with him, we must join with Sauron.
  - tototrains 8mo ago
    Sauron might win, don't want to risk being on the wrong side of the post-apocalypse
    - BLKNSLVR 8mo ago
      Just because you're on Sauron's side when it wins, doesn't mean you'll be on Sauron's side at any other point in the future. One of the things I find interesting about classifying literally any kind of trait within bounds of 'normality', and the culling / suppressing / discouragement of anything outside of that definition, is that there will just be new 'edges', and in short order these edges will be 'other', suddenly outside the definition because times are bad and it has to be someone's fault. And so an ad infinitum until the single supreme ruler is the one entity representative of normal, atop a mountain of dead abominations.
      - 5o1ecist 8mo ago
        [flagged]
cyanydeez 8mo ago
Shareholder value and MAGA value are a venn diagram of optical illusion.
LarsDu88 8mo ago
This is not only a big donation. It is actually the BIGGEST donation by any single individual.