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>>davidb+(OP)
Nothing makes me think of Altman as a grifter more than his trying to spook uneducated lawmakers with sci-fi notions like "superintelligence" for which there are no plausible mechanisms or natural analogues, and for which the solution is to lobby government build a moat around his business and limit his competitors. We do not even have a consensus around a working definition of "intelligence", let alone any evidence that it is a linear or unbounded phenomenon, and even if it were, there is no evidence ChatGPT is a route to even human-level intelligence. The sum total of research into this "field" is a series of long chains of philosophical leaps that rapidly escape any connection to reality, which is no basis for a wide-ranging government intervention.

>>lsy+c9
As much as I LOVE AI, and OpenAI -- and as much as I am about Alignment and such...

Its really weird for me, personally, When I know its @sama that is driving.

YC is the bastion of the future of tech.. and I feel, personally, its kind of a weird, nuanced, conflict with the former head of YC to be the head of AI whereby YC (HN) is a primary gearbox in the driving of the narrative behind AI.

Ive watched @sama on lex at least 3 times. His reasonings are sound, but they are a veneer... his ego seeps through the whitespace to reveal what he is really after...

(if I am wrong correct me)

but @sama wants to go down as basically the Father of generally accepted AI as a service which is profitable.

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Thats the one thing I am interested - how many back-door deals is OpenAI running with [name entity who will ultimately become an enemy]

I'd assume it is >0