OpenAI leaders horrified staffers after proposing an “insane” plan to enrich the company by pitting world governments against each other.
This anecdote of near comic-book-villainry comes from The New Yorker’s sweeping new investigation into CEO Sam Altman, which documents his alarming pattern of lying and manipulating to build his AI empire, a behavior that some insiders likened to that of an actual “sociopath.”
a behavior that some insiders likened to that of an actual “sociopath.”
I can think of like 20 better words to use here.
When officials pressed for a source, Altman replied ambiguously that “I’ve heard things.”
Capitalists doing capitalist things in a capitalist society
Bourgeois stenographers: “is this essentialized mental illness entirely divorced from material conditions?”
Marxists: “this is the most average type of guy who wins at capitalism”
Torment Nexus staffers horrified at conditions inside the nexus
Isn’t pitting governments against each other pretty standard ghoulish porky behavior anyway? Like within the us companies will openly court concessions/incentives from local/state governments under threat of pulling up stakes and moving to somewhere that will. Billionaires say this all the time about being taxed and threatening to move between states or even out of the country. But because this guy isn’t wily enough to not describe the whole process out loud to people, now it’s something new?
Altman, the reporting described, casted himself as an Oppenheimer-like figure. While the driving physicist behind the invention of the atomic bomb used “impassioned appeals about saving the world from the Nazis to persuade physicists to uproot their lives,” it wrote, “Altman leverages fears about the geopolitical stakes of his technology"
Ah so the only difference is that these dipshits think they’re making skynet so it has national security implications I guess?
“The premise, which they didn’t dispute, was ‘We’re talking about potentially the most destructive technology ever invented — what if we sold it to Putin?'” an exasperated Hedley told The New Yorker.
Why build such a place? Simple. The Umbrella Corporation derived its primary income from the sale of viral weaponry, something that’s impossible to test in the real world. They re-created the center of New York, simulated an outbreak, showed it to the Russians and sold them the virus. They simulated an outbreak in Moscow, sold it to the Americans. An outbreak in Tokyo, sold it to the Chinese. An outbreak in China, sold it to the Japanese. Exactly. Everyone had to have it. The Umbrella Corporation built a new arms race.
this is literally the plot of resident evil retribution (2012). idk if its “near comic book villany” this is plagiarized “video-game-adjacent-movie villany”. on brand for the ceo of plagiarism machine i suppose.
“The premise, which they didn’t dispute, was ‘We’re talking about potentially the most destructive technology ever invented — what if we sold it to Putin?'” an exasperated Hedley told The New Yorker
This isn’t sociopathy, it’s delusion. “We’ll make governments to bid on our technology because of how destructive it is” meanwhile that technology can’t even tell me how many "r"s are in the word “strawberry”. This article belongs in a long line of articles detailing just how incompetent our ruling class is and how much of their own bullshit they believe.
They gonna start building vaults next?
Tomorrow Never Dies was a documentary but at least Jonathan Pryce is charismatic
I’ve sat through a few mediocre films just buoyed along by my love of Jonathan Pryce, it happens
