OpenAI robotics lead Caitlin Kalinowski quits in response to Pentagon deal
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I am assuming they quickly realized that they'd rather be rich hypocrites than less rich principled people
Have you never seen the kind of horrific rat race mentality that widespread generational poverty can drive in a society?
Like If you listed the poorest neighbourhoods in the poorest cities in your country do you get highly virtuous places filled with saints.
I think it should be logically inverted. Right now it says:
Not virtuous => Extreme wealth.
But I think it makes more sense as:
Extreme wealth => Not virtuous
The answer is 30%.
The definition of amoral we're using here isn't someone being openly amoral, but rather people who think they're acting morally but actually rationalizing immoral things to themselves as moral. So it's not terribly surprising for this to be nearly everyone - that 30% is also acting directly against their own self-interest, yet rationalizing this as well!
I suspect part of the dynamic with the rich and powerful is that rationalization and general success are both reliant on intelligence - the same ability that helped them amass wealth/power has also assuaged their ego that they did so for some higher purpose. In addition to the obvious dynamic whereby sticking to your morals is generally less lucrative, of course.