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They could have been cool. They could have been 2001 Google. They could have been the number one place any new PhD wanted to work.

But no. The MBAs saw dollar signs, and everything went out the window. They fumbled the early mover advantage, and will be hollowed out by the competition and commodified by the PaaS giants. What a shame.

>>ramesh+(OP)
Instead of taking 15 years to drop the "don't be evil" act like Google, the new AI companies did it in two! e/acc, baby!

>>ramesh+(OP)
The sad thing is that this isn't even MBAs. The Bay area has gotten so infested with the hustlers and win-at-all-costs, winner-takes-all YC mantra tech bros that it seems even a high minded company like OpenAI isn't immune

>>ramesh+(OP)
It’s not just the MBAs that saw dollar signs. A lot of the engineers and researchers did, too.

>>nickle+74
what does e/acc mean?

>>ramesh+(OP)
Who are the MBAs that did this? Altman is not an MBA.

>>Always+vB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_accelerationism

>>ramesh+(OP)
As much as I love blaming things on MBAs, the culture of OpenAI looks at least as much like what happens when you make a room full of real-life Big Bang Theory nerds very rich by rewarding their fantasies of a world free of balanced human interactions.

We have to look at the reality that the worst excesses of the new Silicon Valley culture aren’t stemming from the adults sent to run the ship anymore, and they aren’t stemming from the nerds those adults co-opt anymore either.

The worst excesses of the new Silicon Valley culture are coming from nerds who are empowered and rewarded for their superpower of being unable to empathise.

And I say that as someone who is back to being almost a hermit. We got here by paying people like us and not insisting we try to stop saying what we think without pausing first to think about how it will be received by people not like us.

It’s not a them-vs-us thing now. It’s us-vs-us.

>>Always+vB
Sheldon Cooper can afford a nicer apartment.