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Eric Laspe's avatar

‘Altman said he was “very pro-capitalism,” but “AGI is sort of an exception to that."’

Altman is not even slightly pro-capitalism if he believes there is any invention that should simply be gifted to all of humanity. He is either too stupid to self-reflect on his own words and see that, or he’s a virtue-signaling grifter. It’s possible he just made a mistake, but I find it hard to believe one could go around saying such a thing to billions of people over the course of several years without someone pointing out the problem with his position.

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Timothy B. Lee's avatar

How do you feel about Wikipedia? That seems like an example of a digital product that's available for free to all of humanity. Is Jimmy Wales a virtue-signaling grifter?

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Eric Laspe's avatar

No, but he also doesn’t go around declaring himself “very pro-capitalism.”

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The One Percent Rule's avatar

This is the type of message we would expect from main stream media

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Timothy B. Lee's avatar

What do you mean?

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Malcolm Sharpe's avatar

> A donor can’t sue simply because a non-profit used money differently than he expected. To gain standing, a donor needs to have a legally binding commitment from the non-profit promising to use money in a specific way.

This was clarifying. I do think that Musk has reason to be upset, since, if OpenAI had been structured as an ordinary startup, the amount of early funding he put in would have given him a stake that would be worth billions of dollars today. But that seems not to be legally actionable.

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werdnagreb's avatar

If no one sues OpenAI, does that mean there’s an easy path to privatization? Any other hurdles they need to pass?

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