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[–] 156 points 5 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 103 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Sam Altman is a danger to our entire planet

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  • [–] 93 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    What qualifies this guy to make any predictions that are printable? He's just making random guesses.

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  • [–] 35 points 5 months ago

    It’s not random guesses, it’s intentional fictions to make investing in ‘AI’ companies sound like a good idea.

    They think they can lie their way to real AI by convincing investors to pour enough money into them that poof real AI emerges.

    They’re not going to get the poof they’re hoping for.

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    [–] 47 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Can we pop this bubble already?

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  • [–] 75 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Just in, guy who allegedly raped his sister is wrong.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Wasn't his sister also developmentally disabled? Is that right? CEO Billionaire Sam Altman violently raped his disabled sister then admitted to it like it was a relatable situation?

    I was thinking of a different rich white guy that raped his sister.

    Not every rich white guy, but seemingly always a rich white guy.

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  • [–] -3 points 5 months ago*

    There's actually a pretty long and interesting story behind this. Entire family even wrote a letter discrediting the claims. The claims coincidentally re-started after her bills were no longer getting paid. An apple doesn't fall far from the tree and we already know Altman has pathological lying disorder

    This is why these claims never really go anywhere because mostly everyone realizes it's BS

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  • [–] 28 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    "I'm delighted to ⁠be wrong about this, I thought there would have been more impact on entry-level white-collar jobs being eliminated by now than ​has actually happened," Altman told CBA Chief Executive Matt Comyn in a virtual interview at a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) conference in Sydney (via Reuters).

    ...he says after two years of some of the biggest tech layoffs in history that have impacted numerous tech businesses.

    Maybe he just means he knows the companies are lying about layoffs for AI and it's just an excuse to cut labor, but I doubt it.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago

    Oligarch tries to walk back claims to prevent backlash from investors and the general public.

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (8 children)

    He looks so fucking clueless and straight up lost. How is this guy a fucking CEO? Or just a useful idiot for others to complete that Ai circlejerk where everyone is dumping billions into each other companies to pump up the stocks?

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  • [–] 39 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    How is this guy a fucking CEO?

    Wealthy background. Dropped out, got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum, gaining enough momentum to keep failing upward.

    The guy is absolutely clueless, which can be mathematically proven on the basis of the fact that he invested in a crypto firm.

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  • [–] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

    got lucky with a startup and sold his stake for a decent sum

    He didn't get lucky... him and others bamboozled investors into buying Loopt which was never functional, once sold, it shut down in months. Exactly what he is doing right now

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0K4XPu3Qhg

    Early days discussion (what I am referencing here) starts at 2:15

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  • [–] 29 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I wish I had no morals... Life is so easy when you don't give a single fuck about what you do to others... It's so infuriating to see how many wealthy people have amazing lives because they simply don't give a single fuck about anything but themselves.

    Sociopathy is greatly rewarded in this stupid world we live in. :/

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  • [–] 10 points 5 months ago (-1 children)

    I just want to be clear, most CEOs aren't smart. They have a slightly higher median intelligence than the wider population, but by and large CEOs are no more talented than your average used car salesman. While there's certainly outliers (on both sides), most intelligent people don't start careers in a field with an 80%+ chance of failure in the first 5 years. Altman's success in particular is 50% luck, 50% being a very convincing liar. These people aren't geniuses, they pay people to think for them, which is why having a machine think for them sounds like a great idea.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (-1 children)

    I mean no disrespect to Carl, but he has a very generous take on how we got here. I'm sure it's happened that way somewhere, but how common is it really? I'm more inclined to believe people are more easily suckered by confident incompetence than they like to believe.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (-1 children)

    I've worked for quite a few major companies now, and the one thing that always gets me is the top brass always think they have magical intuition about people. That's how they justify it, both to themselves and to others based on what I see. The ones they're promoting are the ones they think are just smart enough to keep the wheels running. What they actually are are just straight up idiots who are very good at taking credit, and deflecting blame, and have no other notable talent. And then they just keep failing upward, leaving a wake of failure that is always someone else's fault or "valuable lessons" that didn't have to be learned the hard way if they were actually capable of thinking critically.

    These people don't "Fake it 'till they make it" they just fake it, and keep faking it, because they have no idea what they're doing, but they're a much more successful predator than their peers as they cannibalize the company from within. And then these parasites make it to the boardroom and any chance to slow them down vanishes. I've seen it play out exactly like that a dozen times, at promising startups, and venerable old-guard corporations, Fortune 500s and corner stores.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (-1 children)

    That's one of the most humble CEOs I've ever heard of. Most will spin you a yarn a mile long about how all their success was their own brilliant strategy. Their survivorship bias regarding all the ones that were just as capable and worked just as hard, but never got their shot or were effectively given a field promotion to captain of a sinking ship is wild. Their self-awareness, and recognition of the field of corpses they happen to be the last-man-standing in frequently seems to be lacking.

    And as for the parasites in the boardroom, the decision to move executive compensation packages to stock options instead of a salary decades ago had consequences I don't think the Old Money folks fully respected. How the parasites came to control that grade of F.U. money is not trivial.

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    CEO says bullshit like it wasn't his fucking job

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    Dude seems just so out of touch at this point. You can't make confident threats about the technology and then just go 'oops haha'

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Sam Altman should shut up. He is partly to blame for this.

    Selfish prick.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    CEO of tech company talks about slop.

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Sam allotment has the eyes of a man the ai has been using as a meat puppet for a year.

    This spelling error was brought to you by swype. Any decent keyboards or there?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    I've been using Heliboard on Android for a while now and like it, basically FOSS swipe keyboard.

    Currently uses Google's closed-source swipe library which you have to manually download, but they're actively working on crowd sourcing an open source one which you can contribute to in the app.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    All the AI ceos are 100% high on their own supply.

    Most CEOs likely are, because it tells them what they want to hear, and they have minions to actually make it work.

    Real people are likely to see the AI is bullshit,but they're insulated by humans dealing with it

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    Fuck off Altman. Seriously. It's unfortunate your dad didn't hug you enough as a child but you didn't have to compensate by growing up to be a fuck head. He's still not going to hug you.

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  • [–] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Man who can't stand not seeing his name in the news every single day, keeps talking

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    [–] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    He’s delighted that the jobs apocalypse is underway when he predicted it wouldn’t happen. Okay, so?

    This guy is such a tool. Can’t stand him!

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Some 8,000 people that just got laid off at Meta disagree.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Let's hope he "sees the light" just before a new "Luigi" rounds the corner behind him.

    Fingers crossed

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    I'd settle for that, but I would prefer he fully realizes just how shit he's been JUST as it happens.

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    [–] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    It's the token model that will kill it

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Honestly trying to treat token like watt is pretty crazy. Like a watt of power truly is a scientific standard. A bit of information is closer but again pretty standard, you know what are sending when you choose to send or receive a bit of data. Trying to apply a standard utilization rate to a unit of information in exchange for a non-deterministic rate, size, or quality back is nuts.

    How do you meaningfully show an ROI on that?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder how long they can keep the circus running though. They were obviously trying to vendor lock enterprise size businesses in before they eventually nuke the cost model, and Deepseek just preemptively slashed their cloud pricing probably knowing that everyone else will just migrate or even run on older cloud hardware which providers can sell by watt (and demand).

    China might be behind on hardware, but their biggest wrench in the gears will probably just be popularizing their published LLMs which don't require multiple nuclear powerplants to run lol.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    There is an argument that token costs can be recorded as operational expenditure but it's the same argument used for cloud infrastructure, so many companies are going to get hit with multimillion dollar bills for tokens, which will have the effect of reeling in and limiting token usage or moving away from it completely.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Waiter! Waiter! I'll have my billionaire with a side of politician, please!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    No bro, companies are not replacing workers with AI, we are delusional.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    He still needs to be scheduled for a guillotine fitting. I'm sure there is one in his size.

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