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I assume that’s why Altman wants the government as a co-owner.

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Everything seems rotten with this administration.

Which of these two administrations? :)

And sama.

I'll take Sam over amodei.

It's a both are bad choice.

Sam, the proprietor of Woldcoin?

Amodei might play hardball, but he's got nothing on sama's evil villain ambitions.

Why downvote me for an opinion?

Anyways, I'll take a liar over a zealot anyday.

You're asking the wrong person, I didn't downvote you. I am challenging your opinion with evidence of sama's uniquely sinister ambitions.

Can you elucidate why you think Sam is the better horse to bet on? From what I can see, he's the biggest zealot by quite a margin, in addition to being a chronic liar.

Honestly I'd say both are both. They just lie and are zealots about different things.

Ultimately they both want money and power, they just grasp for it in different ways.

And Sama over Trump?

Wasn't Bernie saying the government should confiscate half of OpenAI and Anthropic. This seems like sama is just trying to get ahead of it.

5% vs 50% is a dramatic difference in how things would work out.

True, especially since President Sanders tends to be a bit heavy-handed on exerting political pressure. He's been issuing an unprecedented number of executive orders since he took office...

Not to mention that a government ownership stake also incentivizes a bailout if this all goes bust.

With the way they're treading on, I'd not be surprised if a bailout happens in the next decade.

A 5% stake in an overvalued private company without public financials and with an indeterminate timeline to profitability is a bailout. Shareholders cash out while the taxpayer is stuck with the bill.

Is the government buying their stake or being given a stake? In the second scenario there's no bagholding.

"Too big to fail."

Why?

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