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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jacob Silverman:

It's March 2025. Everyone has resigned from OpenAI except Altman, a single H1B programmer, 50 lawyers, and the guy who refills the keurig. The company is worth $4 trillion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I guess in this scenario, Balaji's fetishized hyperinflation finally happens sometime in the next 6 months.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They’re gonna start announcing real concrete nefarious-ass use cases real soon

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't be shocked at a working agreement with Palmer Luckey's Anduril to offer AI-assisted god-knows-what to Anduril's military/surveillance hardware.

EDIT: my brain took a dookie and I mixed up Luckey's first and last names.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

To be fair, Luckey Palmer is an objectively funnier name.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

World's least efficient baby mulcher

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

A Bill Hicks routine manifest:

"What did ya do with your AI today, Sam?"

"Oh, we made ah, we made ah, arsenic ah, childhood food now, goodnight."

[lays down and snores]

"Yeah, we just said you know is your baby really too loud? You know?"

[snores]

"Yeah, it'll... you know the mums will love it."

[snores]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Oh no! But what happened to We’re not doing it for the money but the good of humanity, and If anybody approaches AGI before us we will shut down and use all our resources to help them instead?

It’s almost as if all of that has been nothing but a load of bullshit from the beginning.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

He'll be out of there with the bag in less than a year.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Should rename themselves ClosedAI

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Glorified markov chains $5000000000
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my investors are dying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

RIP rationalist moonshot. Takes a special kind of SV-libertarian brainrot to think the world will be saved by a company. Do we have EY's reaction yet?