News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO. Parent comment

Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by sanxiyn on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @05:29AM (#38377433)
Why? As an economist, he perfectly understands what is a public good, why there is a market failure to underproduce a public good under free market, and role of nonprofit in public good production.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by pevey on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:36AM (#38377888)
Larry Summers has a track record of not believing in market failures, just market opportunities for private interests. Economists vary vastly in their belief systems, and economics is more politics than science, no matter how much math they try to use to distract from this.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to retu... by ZiiS on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @06:08AM (#38377690)
His deregulation of the banks suggests he heavily flavors free markets even when history has proved him very very wrong.
[ Parent | on HN ]