Enshittification and the Bitterness of Billionaire Bros
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But there’s a flywheel here, where the world seems to have turned on tech, and then, rather than say product managing the problem, tech turns further against the world.
Andreesen says this directly, where he’s mad that the world no longer recognizes philanthropy, so rather than trying to say, how can we serve people better to create what they value, it’s becoming, what if AI meant we didn’t have to make anybody happy. Peter Thiel paused when asked if humanity was good and should continue.
That’s a pretty fucked up response to a loss of popularity.
Popular generally refers to popularity with the masses. For example Jesus is popular. People will die for him. Who is going to die for Thiel and Andreesen or some tool builder/wealth accumulator? They are just misguided people and what they build or think about, wont last beyond their death, because they don't really have apostles or churches that actually provide care.
https://blog.samaltman.com/successful-people
> "Successful people create companies. More successful people create countries. The most successful people create religions."
(if we're talking "who will provide these people physical security and care until death while they continue to preach their religion," that is what the wealth is for)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44598901
(It does looks like his lies would be immune to your probing :()
Religions are evolved.. it's a double-edged thing to id them with a single person.
Sama perhaps knows. I'm glad he thinks mushrooms can help openAI evolve.
To be more critical of joules77: it's still an open question as to whether openAI (identified with either the employment contracts or the IP) was ready to die for sama last year
Also.. Russians (these days) have it in their blood to die for anything, but not something. Worth wondering