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1. convex+C01[view] [source] 2023-11-18 01:11:18
>>davidb+(OP)
Kara Swisher: a “misalignment” of the profit versus nonprofit adherents at the company https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1725678074333635028

She also says that there will be many more top employees leaving.

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2. convex+ch1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 03:08:44
>>convex+C01
Sutskever: "You can call it (a coup), and I can understand why you chose this word, but I disagree with this. This was the board doing its duty to the mission of the nonprofit, which is to make sure that OpenAI builds AGI that benefits all of humanity." Scoop: theinformation.com

https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1725707548106580255

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3. mym199+8M1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 07:12:45
>>convex+ch1
Something that benefits all of humanity in one person's or organization's eye can still have severely terrible outcomes for sub-sections of humanity.
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4. edgyqu+xM1[view] [source] 2023-11-18 07:16:38
>>mym199+8M1
No it cant, that’s literally a contradictory statement
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5. midasu+O72[view] [source] 2023-11-18 10:25:48
>>edgyqu+xM1
The Industrial Revolution had massive positive outcomes for humanity as a whole.

Those who lost their livelihoods and then died did not get those positive outcomes.

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6. bambax+hi2[view] [source] 2023-11-18 11:50:05
>>midasu+O72
It could be argued that the Industrial Revolution was the beginning of the end.

For instance, it's still very possible that humanity will eventually destroy itself with atomic bombs (getting more likely every day).

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7. lordfr+3y2[view] [source] 2023-11-18 13:34:32
>>bambax+hi2
> It could be argued that the Industrial Revolution was the beginning of the end.

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans"

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8. Calami+eD4[view] [source] 2023-11-19 01:44:23
>>lordfr+3y2
One of my favorite thought nuggets from Douglas Adams
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