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OpenAI being a nonprofit is like Anthony Levandowski’s "Way of the Future" being a 501(c) (3) religious nonprofit. All of which is lifted from Stranger in a Strange Land and L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology.

(It wouldn't be the first time someone made a nerd-cult: Aum Shinrikyo was full of physics grad students and had special mind-reading hats. Though that was unironically a cult. Whereas the others were started explicitly as grifts.)

It's like they have no shame.

>>FooBar+(OP)
Say hello to "effective altruism".

>>Geezus+Le
From a distance that looked ok to me at first. It looked like some bloggers writing essays about what is good, with the attitude of a policy wonk. But clearly it's also provided the moral rhetoric behind such bizarre groups as SBF's Adderall-fueled crypto-grift polycule, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are others I don't know about. Maybe you have more examples.