iibarea

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by iibarea 3y ago
Assuming we take this at face value, once you have a lot of money power becomes appealing - and control over a very important player in the AI space is that. The original vision of openAI was democratization of that decision-making process,
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by iibarea 3y ago
... and Simons would maybe be the most justified in overlooking luck, but he's smart enough to realize how random the world is. Peter Norvig also emphasizes the role of luck in his life. It's honestly a very good test of self-awar
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by iibarea 3y ago
Again, this is unbelievably good marketing - and good sales when pitching VCs. Plus it's a nice reworking of the very for profit nonprofit model (see also FTX). But in terms of actual reality openAI is mostly succeeding by being more r
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by iibarea 3y ago
There's tons of extremely effective marketing around who this guy is, what he stands for - and so I'd instead look at what he's done. He took a non-profit intended to offset the commercial motives driving AI development, and
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by iibarea 4y ago
This ... doesn't seem that bad? And I don't think I'd conclude that someone had found out something about me illegally or unethically unless there was something really shitty to find out?
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by iibarea 4y ago
Newsom structures things like this a lot, and the more ambitious part almost never happens. I think this is mostly about running for president and creating a talking point, call me cynical but I don't think anyone expects Ca to directl
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by iibarea 4y ago
I've lived on the edge of the mission for about a decade (and grew up in Oakland and Albany). Do I think SF is extremely dangerous? Honestly not at all, violent crime is not a major issue here - and it feels safer in most of the city t