OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-Source, and For-Profit

Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by MobileVet on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:17AM (#34982038)

I think it’s a weird narcissistic need to feel that they are the center of the conversation and so they are important. What is so interesting about Elon is that he was objectively quite important prior to Twitter... but that wasn't enough.

Whatever your target, whatever you achieve... it is not enough.

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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by permo-w on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:04AM (#34982495)

if you have this massively outsized will to power/wealth/fame, it doesn't suddenly go away once you get there. this means that if you are super wealthy, for you not to become a black hole of power/fame accumulation, your path there has to have been almost an accident

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Re:OpenAI Is Now Everything It Promised Not to Be: Closed-So... by boringg on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @09:48AM (#34982987)

I was listening to a podcast recently (Maybe Ian Leslie on EconTalk) talking about people who are goal seeking vs people who get pleasure out of the process. The people who are goal seeking achieve their next goal but are never satiated - once achieved they need something to fill that "hole". It seems he might be one of those goal objective people. It's obviously more complicated than that but it does make a lot of sense intuitively.

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