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,,I wonder if google and openai truly started out with these ideals and were just corrupted and overpowered by standard organizational greed''

With Google Eric Schmidt explained how it came: quite often when they were breainstorming about product launches, and something looked like it can grow the company, but is immoral to do, some person interrupted: ,,that would be evil''.

As Eric was trying to organize the company, he just added ,,don't be evil'' to company values. Still, he kept it all the way. It's too bad that he was changed after 10 years.

>>xiphia+(OP)
Source? My understanding was this came from within and had nothing to do with products but instead how employees treated one another.

>>d23+81
Tim Ferriss interview with him. It came from within, maybe I didn't explain myself clearly.

>>xiphia+(OP)
This was historically described as "When google was going to hire it's first MBA, an engineer coined the phrase 'dont be evil' and went around spreading inside the company"

So I don't know how to square it with this recent info, but I would say Eric's recent interview is a creative re-interpretation of the circumstances. As execs tend to do.

>>xiphia+V1
So you heard a story in an interview from an executive. That's unlikely to be pure, unembellished truth. It's unlikely to even be partial truth. Better to think of it as a "truth adjacent" story made up for marketing purposes.