He’s not presenting false evidence here, he’s presenting a hunch. It’s a guess. No one is going to gain anything from this one way or another.

> No one is going to gain anything from this one way or another.

Then why did Altman even bother to make this very public statement?

To answer the people asking when GPT5 is coming out, probably.

CEOs often make public statements for recruiting and to steer the company internally, it's important to mimmic what you say inside the company outside the company, maybe even more so.

Altman's made it clear he does not mind being wrong.

Smart people are allowed to make mistakes.

He was a guest on an AI-related discussion panel [1]. I did not attend, but I would guess someone asked him “do you think models will have to continuing growing to even larger sizes,” or something like that, and this was his answer.

Honestly, that anyone thinks he has “ulterior motives” here is hilarious to me. Every day I think more and more that we can no longer think critically on the internet.

[1] https://www.imaginationinaction.co/

He is using his authority to put an idea in the minds of others. That idea is:

"don't bother competing with me. i have already won."

So your embrace of nihilism is total. Here are a couple of books worth reading:

- On Tyranny: https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-...

- The Road to Unfreedom: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-road-to-unfreedom-russia-eu...

Total embrace of nihilism for thinking that Biden has a habit of lying? This is what we call "extreme rhetoric."

You're confused about who's who.

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait generally? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. We ban accounts that keep posting like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35608465

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35599412

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35587730

"Rent free"

It's usually a good thing to keep recent presidents and near future presidential candidates in memory.

This isn't about some dumb grudge.

Some of us prefer to surf the internet without reddit leaking everywhere.

"rent free" is reddit leaking much more than bringing up a politician for a complaint.

So your response is "no u"

Ok, cool.

A little bit.

It's not like an accusation of hypocrisy is automatically wrong, or anything.

It really confuses me why you think such a mundane political statement is a reddit thing. Especially if you think the rent free thing isn't reddity, in which case you're not drawing with a super broad brush in a way I could at least understand.

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35606550.