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[–] 7 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

One of my favorite running gags on reddit: every time someone failed to assassinate Sam Altman someone would comment that it would keep happening until the timeline changed.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    It won't matter anyway, he is the money man, not the brains behind AI. Someone else would take over, nothing would change.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    He's the salesman. His ability to lie convincingly is a big reason for the bubble. If it weren't for him, the regular boom/bust cycle of AI that has happened regularly since the 1960s would have hit bust already.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yup, that's my view of history, too--a vast sea of inevitabilities. Makes history-changing time travel narratives kinda meh.

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