Comment by zooq_ai | Hacker News Reader

Comment by zooq_ai | Hacker News Reader

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Sam Altman made openAI possible. A true CEO like Satya knows without Sam, the rate of progress at OpenAI will be determined by decels like Helen/Jan aka ZERO. It's a disaster for product development, especially when you have openly invited Google to dance.

I know HN leans engineering/safety/reliability/labor/pedantic (like chasing the absolute truth), but at the end of the day, company scales from the likes of Jobs/Musk/Sam/Zuck even it involves deceit or reality distortion field.

Sometimes people just can't handle the truth or don't believe in the vision of visionaries. So, they have to fib a little to the decels and normies. Even Larry / Sergey 'lied' to Eric during Google's growth phase. It's only when they bought normie Sundar that Google became risk averse. And look where it got Google to.

If I have to bet my last $, I'd bet on Elon/Sam/Zuck/Jobs than Helen/Jan/Sundar.

This isn't lying about product philosophy, lying about your financial stake in an OpenAI VC group would be grounds for dismissal from any company.

Had to look up the jargon :

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/what-is-a-decel-dueling...

> “Decel” is used as a dismissive term for tech doomsayers by those who see themselves as members of the burgeoning E/Acc community. [... Who have] the belief that in our current technological age, the powers of innovation and capitalism should be exploited to their extremes to drive radical social change - even at the cost of today’s social order.

I'm sure that--in practice--there will be extremely strong correlation to social-order changes that leave the C-suite richer than before. :p

This is the literal definition of a slippery slope. Letting billionaires, who already wield extreme power, break laws and skirt regulations is the opposite of a free market.

Where do you get this idea that we have a free market? Money begets money, and as the commenter above pointed out, those who have money know how to make it and know that it's the Musk/Zuck/Altmans of the world who get it done.

We don't necessarily have to like it to acknowledge it's very much reality.

The "free market" literally means free of government interference and regulation...

So it actually implies allowing capitalists to wield extreme power, skirt laws and regulations.

I understand the term has gone through some kind of whitewashing to mean "this is the good system (unlike the bad system)", so one might be inclined to think it means something more equitable, but seriously, that was the original meaning.

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