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1. Shank+Qf[view] [source] 2023-11-18 09:27:43
>>convex+(OP)
It seems like firing Sam and causing this massive brain drain might be antithetical to the whole AGI mission of the original non-profit. If OpenAI loses everyone to Sam and he starts some new AI company, it probably won't be capped-profit and just be a normal company. All of the organizational safeguards OpenAI had inked with Microsoft and protection against "selling AGI" once-developed are out-the-window if he just builds AGI at a new company.

I'm not saying this will happen, but it seems to me like an incredibly silly move.

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2. Fluore+3h[view] [source] 2023-11-18 09:38:33
>>Shank+Qf
Why not blame Altman for that?

If he didn't manage to keep OpenAI consistent with it's founding principles and all interests aligned then wouldn't booting him be right? The name OpenAI had become a source of mockery. If Altman/Brockman take employees for a commercial venture, it just seems to prove their insincerity about the OpenAI mission.

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3. Phenom+Oi[view] [source] 2023-11-18 09:56:49
>>Fluore+3h
Because making as much profit as possible is the only virtue worth pursuing if you believe most comments on Hn. We’re basically Ferengui.
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4. omnimu+wn[view] [source] 2023-11-18 10:33:11
>>Phenom+Oi
Rule of Acquisition no. 2 “The best deal is the one that brings the most profit.”
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5. Obscur+Xr[view] [source] 2023-11-18 11:12:05
>>omnimu+wn
What's no. 1, or am I unintentionally beckoning you to violate it in making it vocal?
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6. joshst+8w[view] [source] 2023-11-18 11:42:09
>>Obscur+Xr
Actually the rule above is “non-cannon” [0]. In the official rules [1] number 1 is:

> Once you have their money, you never give it back.

There is no official rule 2 so the non-cannon one is as good as any and the unwritten rule [2]:

> When no appropriate rule applies, make one up

Means they probably would have been covered either way.

[0] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Ap...

[1] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Of...

[2] https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rules_of_Acquisition#Un...

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7. Obscur+Rw[view] [source] 2023-11-18 11:48:11
>>joshst+8w
This is all unintentionally amusing to me :)
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