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> It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything. He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a b
by deaux 8mo ago
> It's frustrating. Sam Altman already has everything. He's a billionaire, he can buy literally anything he wants, he can live anywhere he wants, he can buy a brand new sports car every day just to blow it up, he can buy a new house every week just to demolish and replace it with a trampoline park. He can afford to do anything.
No, he doesn't have everything. See, maybe he's worth $3 billion. Or maybe $30 billion. But he's not worth $300 billion. That's a lot more worth he could have! And even then, he could be worth $3 trillion instead!
But yes, $100 million is the maximum amount of assets one individual should ever be allowed to hold. Potentially less. Anything higher is enormously harmful to society. People would get used to it very quickly and would work just as hard to reach that $100 million as they do now to reach $100 billion.
- tombert 8mo ago“Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH” - Joseph Heller. After a billion dollars, I doubt another billion will make you happier. In fact, I don’t think another trillion will make you happier. In fact, I don’t think another quadrillion dollars will make you happier, etc. After a certain point you have effectively infinite money. Enough money to live dozens of extremely comfortable lifetimes. And importantly enough money to afford to actually have some principles. Oh no, he wouldn’t be able to afford to have his house re-covered in 24 karat gold again if he doesn’t fellate our lolcow president.
- alt227 8mo agoWe live in a capitalist economy. What do you expect, a company to just say 'Thats fine we have enough money we dont need any more'? How does a $100 billion dollar company grow? By taking on massive government and military contracts, they are the only clients big enough left in the world. If a company does not show continual growth then it is classed as failing. That is the society we have built, and you cannot blame one man for following those principles. Every CEO in existence does the same.
- tombert 8mo agoSomehow Anthropic’s CEO managed to reach a different conclusion. They don’t have to do business with every single entity who asks them to and they don’t have to bend over for every stipulation that that entity asks for.
- alt227 8mo agoYep, in exactly the same way that for years Google was 'not evil'. When anthropic can no longer grow through developer subscriptions and deals with ethical companies, Lets see how long it takes their shareholders to force them to remove such sweet statements from their company mission statement.
- tombert 8mo agoI love how you chastised me for speculating on Altman’s mind state but apparently you can predict the future and know what Anthropic is going to do N years from now. Yeah maybe Anthropic will become a rent-seeking corporation. That’s likely even. And yet that’s not actually relevant at all to what I said; the fact is that right now they appear to have more principles than Altman and OpenAI
- alt227 8mo agoThere is no corporation in existence that hasnt eventually bowed to the whim of their shareholder masters. Everybody grows up and moves on, and when everybody in Anthropic who shares your golden heart is gone onto their next job, the companies ethical nature will plummet rapidly.
- lwhi 8mo agoPlease, come on. Is this really the best backup? Sam Altman has demonstrated that he's a piece of ** with this move. We can now safely assume that all the pronouncements and grand statements before were simply posturing.
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