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Let's not romanticize business too much, they want money.

They want monopoly. Or, worse case, olygopoly. Which leads to an unrivaled, long-term money making machine and power.

moneypoly

if you're going to keep using the word oligopoly you should spell it correctly. from Greek oligos 'small', oligoi 'few'.

Thank you! In keeping with the theme of helping strangers with correct language usage: if you're going to keep writing sentences, you should start them with the first letter capitalized.

honestly, i think that's a different matter than spelling. using case is not really something i do, by choice.

my thoughts on spelling are that when someone is making an argument, their ability to use a word correctly is a necessary part of conveying their ideas clearly. and spelling a word correctly is a necessary part of using a word, since the spelling evokes the entire history of the word itself: the language and context it came from, the people, time and place that word originated.

i truly am interested in hearing your input on why you think it's important to use casing. change my mind

Short: it improves by a lot the readability of your text.

Sentences are one of the most important tools in language to organize ideas. A dot is too small and discrete to set apart sentences. Adding a dot ~and~ an uppercase letter right next to it makes a much better separator.

You're welcome to disagree. Since you were generous contributing about spelling - I'm not a native English speaker, btw -, I just wanted to pay back with a suggestion about text structuring and readability.

OpenAI is technically a non-profit :-)

They are as non-profit as they are open.

The just want tons of moneys

Please consider not commenting if you don't have anything interesting to say, it makes the site better if we all try to follow that guideline :)

(The actual official guidelines always worth a read, of course https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )

The Open AI corporation is owned by a non-profit.

Open Ai is a cash grab that's shitting on everything the open source movement used to stand for. They have single handedly done more damage to the open source ecosystem in 4 years than Microsoft did in 40.

Can you say more? It sounds like you're referring to more than just the contamination of the word "open".

They are trying to make training weights of models into munitions, like encryption was in the 80s. That is worse for open source development of models than anything anyone else has done including Amazon. The best thing that can happen is that Altman et al are hit by a bus on the way to their next meeting with a head of state trying to legislate them being the only responsible censor and natural monopolist for Ai.

You don't think it's a little uncalled for to wish physical harm and/or death on someone just because you disagree with their actions?

> You don't think it's a little uncalled for to wish physical harm and/or death on someone just because you disagree with their actions?

Kind of depends what the actions are: “Leaving your turn signal on after you have completed a lane change maneuver” and “carrying out a genocide” are both actions one might disagree with.

If time travelers aren’t trying to take out tech ceos, then it means we are okay.

looks who's funding OpenAI

Irrelevant. The non-profit is controlled by the same people, and only existed to class their massive startup capital as 'donations.'

Do you have any source to this? If this were the motive, why would more VCs not require their corporates to be formed as non-profits?

Because the donors didn't know the company was going to pivot to private. If VCs did that deliberately it would be completely illegal.

sounds like a very wink wink way to go about it

But the people who donated that money to the non-profit can't receive any profits? And the expected tax benefits of donating a dollar are always less than a dollar, so that doesn't make any sense.

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