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I do not trust this man to do anything in my best interest. He is a disingenuous and untrustworthy messenger, and if allowed to continue unchecked will end up the overlord of a new hyper-capitalist dystopian nightmare. I’m genuinely afraid of this guy and people like him.
I’ll remind folks that this is a man with such appalling hubris that he thinks he should be able to raise trillions of dollars to make his own fantasies come true.
I would never trust someone who surrounds themselves with the people Altman surrounds himself with. I always got bad vibes from Musk because he was close to people like Peter Thiel and it's the same with Altman.
And an outspoken apocalypse doomsday prepper. Definitely the kind of ideals we want in unilateral control of nuclear power plants. This guy can't fuck off sooner and any entity that would back his enterprise is either fucking stupid or blinded by greed.
His crypto scheme was already raising eyebrows. When OpenAI board attempted a coup and he clawed back to his seat, it seemed like he had gained complete control over the place.
The dude really gave off Stephen Holstrom from Pantheon vibes. (Even if they made him look like Steve Jobs)
He can't be worse than the ones that are already our overlords. At least he could theoretically free us from slaving our lives away. Probably won't, but could...
Are you serious? AI is about lowering the cost of labor for office workers by not needing junior talent. None of these billionaires are going to free you from slaving your life away.
That's kind of like defending monarchy because "surely the future king can't be worse than the current one". They are the same breed. He is them. It's a somewhat systematic problem with these super rich technocrats.
The only way to rid oneself from a king is to burry them in a random field and have them be discovered under a parking lot a couple centuries later
He can't be worse than the ones that are already our overlords.
Pretty much all of human history would like a word.
Yeah I hear you, but I think that’s actually a big part of the problem. We the plebs want AI to free us from slaving away our lives. But Altman and those like him will never have the same motivations as us, so I’ll never trust them to develop the technology in a responsible way that actually benefits the majority of people, not just the tippy top of the absurdly wealthy.
AI will never free you under capitalism
The last thing you want a tech bro to ‘disrupt’ is nuclear power. Nuclear reactors skirting safety regulations are a bad idea.
This feels like we are on the Fallout timeline. How are we doing if Fallout was rebranded to get the world stuck in the early 00's?
So he named his company after the world's only natural nuclear reactor in Oklo
Am I the only one who gets tired of having search results (which are already terrible) get even worse when capitalists take names for their products and companies from native languages and locations, making it harder to find information about the pre-existing stuff?
I'm interested in Gabon's natural nuclear reactor, not in some stupid saltman company.
Pshaw, if it's not from the Gabon region of Africa it's just sparkling nuclear reactor
This guy creeps me out in a modern Zuckerberg way.
Yeah, cuz that's totally worth it. Nuclear reactors that mostly power laziness, porn addictions or malicious actors. Why don't you work on making the power requirements LESS instead, Sam?
LOL okay Greenpeace.
Just keep kicking that can down the road...
How carbon dioxide is better to you is a mystery to me.
If you want the other things to stop, you'll have to kill all humans.
Alls I know is, putting nuclear technology in the hands of a techbro can only work out great for everyone.
When they layoff everyone and leave the place poisoned for millennia, the share price is gonna jump!
There are regulations in place, and nuclear power plants do not leave toxic waste around them? They aren't like coal plants that simply dump the waste into the air.
This is why the government requires you to have long term finances that can be used to prevent a disaster long term due to financial issues.
I think you make a good case for making energy production a public utility. Private ownership of essential services is ethically bankrupt. The fact that a company can fail and leave people without core services, is disgusting in my opinion. Even more disgusting is that they almost always seek public funds to bail them out.
