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>>maxuti+(OP)
Well that story is just sad, because it means the principle/research-oriented company structure they set up utterly failed in the face of profit motives. Clearly Altman was not dissuaded from doing things the power structure didn't want him to do.

>>brucet+V2
In today's world, capitalism, or more like human hubris and greed for the desire of ever-growing process, always prevail in the end, no matter how venerate and honorable your initial goals would be

>>stevef+x3
"In today's world, capitalism"

Capitalism is the modern avenue for channeling greed but the greed and hubris part is universal to all of human history.

>>tootie+k4
>the greed and hubris part is universal to all of human history.

Yes, but when you think about it that still does not mean that it's "human nature".

Just the opposite, it's really just inhuman nature still lingering since the dawn of man, who haven't quite made enough progress beyond the lower life forms. Yet.

Maybe a thinking machine will teach us a thing or two, back in 1969 this was dramatized in the movie 2001 where the computer was not as humane as it could have been since it was too much like some real people.