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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+(OP)
Humans have been humans for far longer than “in today’s world”. We just have the tools now to more efficiently amplify all of our worst qualities.

>>stevef+(OP)
It’s nice to have this modern clear example now to point to though.

>>stevef+(OP)
"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.

>>IAmGra+w
And our best qualities ? I’m a pretty pessimistic person but I mean common ? Overall the world is fairly sweet.

>>ChatGT+S
Yeah I have to agree. Go back a few hundred years and it’s basically all war all the time. Now it’s only happening in parts of the world

>>stevef+(OP)
The more important story than a "failure of capitalism" is Altman's influence and maneuvering as a CEO.

He had certain positions, and pushed them just gradually enough for OpenAI to end up where it is today. A more zealous capitalist would have gotten fired unceremoniously long ago.

>>stevef+(OP)
>human hubris and greed for the desire of ever-growing process, always prevail in the end

I think this is kind of what some people are more concerned about... The day greed doesn't prevail because greed killed us all.

>>tootie+N
>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.