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I'm all for being cynical and jaded, but what do you suppose his secret evil plan is in this case?

I've not seen Game of Thrones, but I am aware of a meme about Daenerys Targaryen surprising viewers by doing in the finale exactly and specifically what she said she was going to do throughout the show.

So anyway, Sam Altman is working on creating and aligning this super-duper artificial intelligence that, if it works out, makes all of human labour and economic value to date pale in comparison.

It's amazing how that is still a difficult concept for people here in 2023.

It's not necessarily evil. It's probably just to make a shit ton of money. Plenty of ways to do that without directly taking equity in OpenAI.

You don't get to his level of wealth without having an innate desire for more of money. Everything always comes back to that.

Hypothetically, if he doesn't end up making as much money as he would have if he'd taken equity, does that mean his secret plan failed, or that he's got an even more secret plan going on in the background?

Or he didn't realize it would take off the way it did and made a mistake. Now he's getting fluff pieces written to at least try and make the best of the mistake.

I don't believe for a second that he essentially donated billions of dollars in equity on purpose.

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