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Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by zeroq on Sunday October 05, 2025 @12:35AM (#45478868)
"At this point I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth."

It's that dumbass at your work who thinks that solely because he landed a job that pays him more than their parents ever made combined in his early 20s he can school everyone on every topic imaginable, from nutrition to religion.

Him and Elon makes way more than that dumbass so ego get inflated even more.

I don't especially like Tucker Carlson, but I think the more screen time we'll give to this people with an open mic it's better for everyone to have a first hand experience of how detached from reality these people are.

Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by blitzar on Sunday October 05, 2025 @03:12AM (#45479510)
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt
Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by IT4MD on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:13AM (#45482116)
Thanks for the example.
Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by blitzar on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:13AM (#45488484)
The pleasure was all mine.
Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by johnnienaked on Sunday October 05, 2025 @03:12AM (#45479508)
Absolutely right, and it's ubiquitous across organizations too.

I've never met an executive I respect. They're all absolute experts at appearing competent.

Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by aswegs8 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:27AM (#45481743)
I mean, they're selected for it so that's not surprising
Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by johnnienaked on Sunday October 05, 2025 @01:03PM (#45483225)
I guess the surprising part is that appearing competent is more important to shareholders than being competent
Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by estimator7292 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @03:36PM (#45484508)
Actually checking if someone is competent requires actual work, though. Work is for lesser people. Shareholders just know if a person is or is not competent, that's why they have so much money, right?
Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by FuckButtons on Monday October 06, 2025 @06:26AM (#45489803)
>I don't especially like Tucker Carlson, but I think the more screen time we'll give to this people with an open mic it's better for everyone to have a first hand experience of how detached from reality these people are.

Idk, seems like we’re in a pretty shit situation politically right now because many delusional men were given an open microphone access.

As much as it would be nice to believe we lived in a world where people can discern truth from illusion, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

And, given that, it seems like the wisest course of action would be to come up with some means of forcing mass media to adhere to fact and remove from public discourse anyone who refuses to acknowledge or espouse it, lest they bend reality in their interest, but instead we decided to invent machines for manufacturing the most sophisticated lies ever seen and disseminate them to everyone.

It’s not going to end well.

Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by delichon on Monday October 06, 2025 @06:33AM (#45489835)
> As much as it would be nice to believe we lived in a world where people can discern truth from illusion, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

> And, given that, it seems like the wisest course of action would be to come up with some means of forcing mass media to adhere to fact and remove from public discourse anyone who refuses to acknowledge or espouse it...

How is it a wise course of action for people to force people to adhere to fact if we don't live in a world where people can discern truth? Don't you see the contradiction?

Re:OpenAI's hunger for computing power has Sam Altman dashin... by tejasvi88 on Monday October 06, 2025 @08:20PM (#45497896)
I read the parent as very subtle satire. They are following the logical conclusion of the desire to suppress disagreeable speech.