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There's really a few people leading the AI charge that I think would actually embody the kind of character needed for such a role than Demis. I don't know if he

by lnenad 6mo ago

There's really a few people leading the AI charge that I think would actually embody the kind of character needed for such a role than Demis. I don't know if he's fooling the public and deeply inside represents a person more aligned with Altman; but I'm really happy he's at the top with the public information I've seen/read about him. I'm hoping Google wins the race and builds a moat so that the other more nefarious leaders get dumpstered.

fidotron 6mo ago
He was even bouncing around as a teenager at Bullfrog back in their glory days, and the noise around him then was that he was clearly going to go on to great things. I don't agree with everything he says, but he's obviously an enormously deeper thinker than the likes of Altman.
- neurocline 6mo ago
  One of my coworkers on Battle.net at Blizzard previously was at Bullfrog when Demis was there, and had only good things to say about him.
  - pixelpoet 6mo ago
    I was at Lionhead for a while and he was very highly regarded even among wizards like Alex Evans.
andsoitis 6mo ago
Yes let’s root for Alphabet controlling even more things!
- lnenad 6mo ago
  It's not "Alphabet". Alphabet doesn't have a brain. It's people steering these companies. If our choice is between one megacorp with a proud and obvious narcissistic psychopath and one that has Demis, I'd rather go with the other.
  - Tarq0n 6mo ago
    The aggregate effect of the chemical gradients in the antheap controls the ants. It's similar in these giant companies where the combination of all the incentives makes for a gradient towards certain outcomes. I can see little intentionality or individual agency in what the likes of Google have produced in the last two decades.
rhubarbtree 6mo ago
It’s plausible he is as imagined. But selling to Google makes that irrelevant. His job is to serve their bottom line and they’ve done a lot of work on ads etc. He won’t maintain control.

by lnenad 6mo ago

fidotron 6mo ago

He was even bouncing around as a teenager at Bullfrog back in their glory days, and the noise around him then was that he was clearly going to go on to great things. I don't agree with everything he says, but he's obviously an enormously deeper thinker than the likes of Altman.

neurocline 6mo ago
One of my coworkers on Battle.net at Blizzard previously was at Bullfrog when Demis was there, and had only good things to say about him.
- pixelpoet 6mo ago
  I was at Lionhead for a while and he was very highly regarded even among wizards like Alex Evans.

andsoitis 6mo ago

Yes let’s root for Alphabet controlling even more things!

lnenad 6mo ago
It's not "Alphabet". Alphabet doesn't have a brain. It's people steering these companies. If our choice is between one megacorp with a proud and obvious narcissistic psychopath and one that has Demis, I'd rather go with the other.
- Tarq0n 6mo ago
  The aggregate effect of the chemical gradients in the antheap controls the ants. It's similar in these giant companies where the combination of all the incentives makes for a gradient towards certain outcomes. I can see little intentionality or individual agency in what the likes of Google have produced in the last two decades.

rhubarbtree 6mo ago

It’s plausible he is as imagined. But selling to Google makes that irrelevant. His job is to serve their bottom line and they’ve done a lot of work on ads etc. He won’t maintain control.